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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164922603321

Titolo

Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa / / edited by Thomas Spear & Richard Waller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : James Curry, , 2016

1993

ISBN

0-8214-4568-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Eastern African Studies

Disciplina

305.8965

Soggetti

Maasai (African people) - Ethnic identity

Maasai (African people) - Social life and customs

Ethnicity - Kenya

Ethnicity - Tanzania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Chiefly papers presented at the African Studies Association Meeting in Atlanta in 1989."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

A multi-disciplinary approach to studying ethnicity in Africa.Many of the people who identify themselves as Maasai, or who speak the Maa language, are not pastoralist at all, but framers and hunters. Over time many people have 'become' something else, adn what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is still changing today.This collection by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists examines how Maasai identity has been created, evoked, contested and transformed.North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota; Kenya: EAEP