TY  - BOOK
AU  - African Studies Association
AU  - Spear,Thomas T.
AU  - Waller,Richard
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TI  - Being Maasai: ethnicity & identity in East Africa 
T2  - Eastern African studies
AV  - DT433.A258.B456 1993 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - London
PB  - J. Currey
KW  - Maasai (African people)
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Tanzania
N1  - Chiefly papers presented at the African Studies Association Meeting in Atlanta in 1989; 1 (pages 303-316) and index; 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; 2
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