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Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa

Spear, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Eastern African Studies

African HistoryNative American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 0821410458
ISBN13: 9780821410455
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 1993
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.16
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.72
Language: English

Everyone knows the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.

But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have become something else. And 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 from the time of their earliest settlement in Kenya to the present, as well as raising questions about the nature of ethnicity generally.

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