Time, space, and the unknown : Maasai configurations of power and providence / / Paul Spencer

• Autore: Spencer Paul <1932, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.89/965
• Soggetto topico: Maasai (African people) - Rites and ceremonies; Cosmology, Maasai; Maasai (African people) - Psychology; Space and time; Age groups - Kenya
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-278) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Note on orthography; Introduction; The boundaries of time, space, and certainty; The age system, and the social construction of time and experience; Power and the social construction of space; Providence and the cosmology of misfortune; The Loonkidongi diviners and Prophets; Loonkidongi oracles and cyclical reckoning among the Maasai; Diverging models in space and variation over time; The Purko Maasai in 1977: a northern model; The Kisonko Maasai of Loitokitok in 1977: a southern model; A pre-colonial model and the hub of power ; Alternative models of social control among the Arusha MaasaiConclusion: the interplay of power and providence, and the theory of dilemmas; References; Subject index; Name index
• Sommario/riassunto: Time, Space and the Unknown follows on from The Maasai of Matapoto and The Samburu to show how uncertainty and misfortune influence the social life of the Maasai.
• Titolo autorizzato: Time, space, and the unknown
• ISBN: 1-134-37159-4; 1-134-37160-8; 1-280-02479-8; 0-203-58352-3; 0-203-34862-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783804603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II