A multi-disciplinary approach to studying ethnicity in Africa.
Maps, Figures & Illustrations
vii
Contributors
x
Acknowledgements
xii
I. Introduction
1
(289)
Thomas Spear
II. Becoming Maasai
Introduction
19
(6)
Dialects, Sectiolects, or Simply Lects? The Maa Language in Time Perspective
25
(13)
Gabriele Sommer
Rainer Vossen
Becoming Maasailand
38
(23)
J.E.G. Sutton
Maasai Expansion and the New East African Pastoralism
61
(26)
John G. Galaty
Aspects of 'Becoming Turkana': Interactions and Assimilation Between Maa- and Ateker-Speakers
87
(18)
John Lamphear
Defeat and Dispersal: The Laikipiak and Their Neighbours at the End of the Nineteenth Century
105
(15)
Neal Sobania
Being 'Maasai', but not 'People of Cattle': Arusha Agricultural Maasai in the Nineteenth Century
120
(20)
Thomas Spear
III. Being Maasai
Introduction
137
(3)
Becoming Maasai, Being in Time
140
(17)
Paul Spencer
The World of Telelia: Reflections of a Maasai Woman in Matapato
157
(17)
Telelia Chieni
Paul Spencer
'The Eye that Wants a Person, Where Can It Not See?': Inclusion, Exclusion, and Boundary Shifters in Maasai Identity
174
(21)
John G. Galaty
Aesthetics, Expertise, and Ethnicity: Okiek and Maasai Perspectives on Personal Ornament
195
(31)
Donna Klumpp
Corinne Kratz
IV. Contestations and Redefinitions
Introduction
223
(3)
Acceptees and Aliens: Kikuyu Settlement in Maasailand
226
(32)
Richard Waller
Land as Ours, Land as Mine: Economic, Political and Ecological Marginalization in Kajiado District
258
(15)
David J. Campbell
Maa-Speakers of the Northern Desert: Recent Development in Ariaal and Rendille Identity
273
(17)
Elliot Fratkin
V. Conclusions
290
(13)
Richard Waller
Bibliography
303
(14)
Index
317
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