Being Maasai Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa |
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| Author:
| Spear, Thomas |
| Editor:
| Spear, Thomas
Waller, Richard |
| Contribution by:
| Waller, Richard |
| Series title: | Eastern African Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8214-1029-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1993 |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.