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Being Maasai : ethnicity & identity in East Africa / edited by Thomas Spear and Richard Waller. [print]

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TextSeries: Eastern African studies (London, England)Publication details: London : J. Currey ; (c)1993.; Athens : Ohio University Press, (c)1993.Description: xi, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

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DT433.A258.B456 1993

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Thomas Spear -- II. Becoming Maasai. 1. Dialects, sectiolects, or simply lects? The Maa language in time perspective Gabriele Sommer and Rainer Vossen. 2. Becoming Maasailand J.E.G. Sutton. 3. Maasai expansion and the new East African pastoralism John G. Galaty. 4. Aspects of "becoming Turkana": interactions and assimilation between Maa- and Ateker-speakers John Lamphear. 5. Defeat and dispersal: the Laikipiak and their neighbours at the end of the nineteenth century Neal Sobania. 6. Being "Maasai" but not "people of cattle": Arusha agricultural Maasai in the nineteenth century Thomas Spear -- III. Being Maasai. 7. Becoming Maasai, being in time Paul Spencer. 8. The world of Telelia: reflections of a Maasai woman in Matapato / Telelia Chieni and Paul Spenser. 9. "The eye that wants a person, where can it not see?": inclusion, exclusion, and boundary shifters in Maasai identity John G. Galaty. 10. Aesthetics, expertise, and ethnicity: Okiek and Maasai perspectives on personal ornament Donna Klumpp and Corinne Kratz -- IV. Contestations and redefinitions. 11. Acceptees and aliens: Kikuyu settlement in Maasailand Richard Waller. 12. Land as ours, land as mine: economic, political and ecological marginalization in Kajiado District David J. Campbell. 13. Maa-speakers of the northern desert: recent developments in Ariaal and Rendille identity Elliot Fratkin -- V. Conclusions Richard Waller.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	DT433.545.M33B44 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923000868865

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

I. Introduction Thomas Spear -- II. Becoming Maasai. 1. Dialects, sectiolects, or simply lects? The Maa language in time perspective Gabriele Sommer and Rainer Vossen. 2. Becoming Maasailand J.E.G. Sutton. 3. Maasai expansion and the new East African pastoralism John G. Galaty. 4. Aspects of "becoming Turkana": interactions and assimilation between Maa- and Ateker-speakers John Lamphear. 5. Defeat and dispersal: the Laikipiak and their neighbours at the end of the nineteenth century Neal Sobania. 6. Being "Maasai" but not "people of cattle": Arusha agricultural Maasai in the nineteenth century Thomas Spear -- III. Being Maasai. 7. Becoming Maasai, being in time Paul Spencer. 8. The world of Telelia: reflections of a Maasai woman in Matapato / Telelia Chieni and Paul Spenser. 9. "The eye that wants a person, where can it not see?": inclusion, exclusion, and boundary shifters in Maasai identity John G. Galaty. 10. Aesthetics, expertise, and ethnicity: Okiek and Maasai perspectives on personal ornament Donna Klumpp and Corinne Kratz -- IV. Contestations and redefinitions. 11. Acceptees and aliens: Kikuyu settlement in Maasailand Richard Waller. 12. Land as ours, land as mine: economic, political and ecological marginalization in Kajiado District David J. Campbell. 13. Maa-speakers of the northern desert: recent developments in Ariaal and Rendille identity Elliot Fratkin -- V. Conclusions Richard Waller.

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