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Among the Maasai

Juliet Cutler
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Author : Juliet Cutler
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631526732

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In 1999, Juliet Cutler leaves the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. Captivated by the stories of young Maasai women determined to get an education in the midst of a culture caught between the past and the future, she seeks to empower and support her students as they struggle to define their own fates. Cutler soon learns that behind their shy smiles and timid facades, her Maasai students are much stronger than they appear. For them, adolescence requires navigating a risky world of forced marriages, rape, and genital cutting, all in the midst of a culture grappling with globalization. In the face of these challenges, these young women believe education offers hope, and so, against all odds, they set off alone―traveling hundreds of miles and even forsaking their families―simply to go to school. Twenty years of involvement with this school and its students reveal to Cutler the important impacts of education across time, as well as the challenges inherent in tackling issues of human rights and extreme poverty across vastly different cultures. Working alongside local educators, Cutler emerges transformed by the community she finds in Tanzania and by witnessing the life-changing impact of education on her students. Proceeds from the sale of this book support education for at-risk Maasai girls.

One of Them

Eti Dayan
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Author : Eti Dayan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Israelis
ISBN : 9798652201685

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A unique look into one of the most fascinating tribes in Africa, through Western eyes. Eti Dayan, researcher and tour guide, used to visit a Maasai village during her trips to Kenya. When Dayan is invited to attend a traditional wedding at the village, she undergoes a once-in-a-lifetime experience. A few months later, she receives a small note informing her that her Maasai hostess, No'oltwati, has fallen gravely ill. Dayan decides to fly back to Kenya, and use creative ways to save No'oltwati's life. During her stay in the village, she falls in love with the members of the tribe. She is given a Maasai name, Nayolang, One of Us, and is invited to build her home in the village. One of Them tells the story of the amazing life of Eti Dayan which became and unexpectedly interlaced with those of the Maasai people in Kenya. Through Dayan's Western perspective, the reader is allowed a rare peek into the culture of one of the world's most unique ethnic groups. In a tone lush with honesty and grace, with impressive knowledge and great charm, Dayan relates wonderful stories we have not yet read about the Maasai daily life, special ceremonies and cultural clashes, while debating questions of belonging, sustenance, parenthood, ownership, sexuality, male and female circumcision, politics, heritage, hunting and more.

Only the Mountains Do Not Move

Jan Reynolds
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Author : Jan Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1600608442

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Only the Mountains Do Not Move by Jan Reynolds Pdf

"A photographic essay about the Maasai people in Kenya, traditionally nomadic herders, exploring the contemporary challenges they face focusing on environmental changes such as the overgrazing of land and the threat of wildlife extinction and how the Maasai are adapting their agricultural practices and lifestyle while preserving their culture"--Provided by publisher. Includes Maasai proverbs. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous

Dorothy L. Hodgson
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Author : Dorothy L. Hodgson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253000910

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Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous by Dorothy L. Hodgson Pdf

What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous peoples’ movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why? Dorothy L. Hodgson explores how indigenous identity, both in concept and in practice, plays out in the context of economic liberalization, transnational capitalism, state restructuring, and political democratization. Hodgson brings her long experience with Maasai to her understanding of the shifting contours of their contemporary struggles for recognition, representation, rights, and resources. Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous is a deep and sensitive reflection on the possibilities and limits of transnational advocacy and the dilemmas of political action, civil society, and change in Maasai communities.

My Maasai Life

Robin Wiszowaty
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Author : Robin Wiszowaty
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781553658238

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My Maasai Life by Robin Wiszowaty Pdf

Growing up in suburban Illinois, Robin Wiszowaty leads a typical middle-class American life. Hers is a world of gleaming shopping malls, congested freeways, and neighborhood gossip. But from an early age, she has longed to break free of this existence and discover something deeper. What it is, she doesn't quite know. Yet she knows in her heart there simply has to be more. Through a fortunate twist of fate, Robin seizes an opportunity to travel to rural Kenya and join an impoverished Maasai community. Suddenly her days are spent hauling water, evading giraffes, and living in a tiny hut made of cow dung with her adoptive family. She is forced to face issues she's never considered: extreme poverty, drought, female circumcision, corruption — and discovers love in the most unexpected places. In the open wilds of the dusty savannah, this Maasai life is one she could never have imagined.

When the Light Is Fire

Heather D. Switzer
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Author : Heather D. Switzer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252050770

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When the Light Is Fire by Heather D. Switzer Pdf

A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related forms of oppression. Heather Switzer's interviews with over one hundred Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls challenge the widespread view of education as a silver bullet solution to global poverty. In their own voices, the girls offer incisive insights into their commitments, aspirations, and desires. Switzer weaves this ethnographic material into an astute analysis of historical literature, education and development documents, and theoretical literature. Massai schoolgirls express a particular knowledge about themselves and provocative hopes for their futures. Yet, as Switzer shows, new opportunities force them to face, and navigate, new vulnerabilities and insecurities within a society that is itself in flux.

The Last Maasai Warriors

Jackson Ntirkana,Wilson Meikuaya
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Author : Jackson Ntirkana,Wilson Meikuaya
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781927435014

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The Last Maasai Warriors by Jackson Ntirkana,Wilson Meikuaya Pdf

How two young Maasai tribesmen became warriors, scholars, and leaders in their community and to the world. They are living testament to a vanishing way of life on the African savannah. Wilson and Jackson are two brave warriors of the Maasai, an intensely proud culture built on countless generations steeped in the mystique of tradition, legend and prophecy. They represent the final generation to literally fight for their way of life, coming of age by proving their bravery in the slaying of a lion. They are the last of the great warriors. Yet, as the first generation to fully embrace the modern ways and teachings of Western civilization, the two warriors have adapted — at times seamlessly, at times with unimaginable difficulty -- in order to help their people. They strive to preserve a disappearing culture, protecting the sanctity of their elders while paving the way for future generations. At this watershed moment in their history, the warriors carry the weight of their forbearers while embracing contemporary culture and technology. While their struggle to achieve this balance unfolds exquisitely in this story, their discoveries resonate well beyond the Maasai Mara.

Oral Literature of the Maasai

Kipuri, Naomi
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Author : Kipuri, Naomi
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966461735

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Oral Literature of the Maasai by Kipuri, Naomi Pdf

Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in Kajiado County of Kenya. The author listened to many of the narratives and participated in many proverb and riddle telling sessions as she grew up in her Ilbissil village of Kajiado Central Sub-county. However, she recorded most of the examples of oral literature in the early seventies with the help of her mother, who performed the role of the oral artist. Many songs were recorded from live performances. The examples ring with individuality, while also revealing a comprehensive way of life of a people. The images in the literature reveal the concrete life of the Maasai – people living closely with their livestock and engaged in constant struggle with the environment. But like all important literature, the materials here ultimately reveal a people with its moral and spiritual concerns, grappling with questions of human values and relations, struggling for a better social order. This book recommends itself to the general reader. However, the book is more than this: it includes stimulating discussions of examples, as well as review questions and exercises. The book is highly recommended to students of oral literature at secondary school level and at the university.

Once Intrepid Warriors

Dorothy Louise Hodgson
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Author : Dorothy Louise Hodgson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 025333909X

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Drawing on archival sources as well as her extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, Dorothy L. Hodgson explores the ways identity, development, and gender have interacted to shape the Maasai into who and what they are today. By situating the Maasai in the political, economic, and social context of Tanzania and of world events, Hodgson shows how outside forces, and views of development in particular, have influenced Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations.

Maasai

Tepilit Ole Saitoti
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Author : Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : 0810980991

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Maasai by Tepilit Ole Saitoti Pdf

"Named for the language they speak--Maa, a distinct but unwritten African tongue--the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania still live much as they did thousands of years ago, herding cattle, sheep, and goats and existing in harmony with their peaceful environment in and around the Great Rift Valley. Tall, proud, aristocratic in bearing and manner, these handsome people have made their way into the twentieth century with their ancient customs and the structure of their society preserved to an unusual extent. For the first time ever, this book--a kind of autobiography, since it is written by a Maasai--documents their living story. It recounts the ancient legends, reveals the songs and prayers, and vividly describes the stages of life for a Maasai: childhood, initiation, warrior rank, and finally elderhood."--Publisher's description.

Being Maasai

Thomas T. Spear,Richard D. Waller
Being Maasai Book PDF

Author : Thomas T. Spear,Richard D. Waller
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0852552157

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Being Maasai by Thomas T. Spear,Richard D. Waller Pdf

Many of the people who identify themselves as Maasai, or who speak the Maa language, are not pastoralist at all, but framers and hunters. Over time many people have 'become' something else, adn 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. North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota; Kenya: EAEP

Maasai Days

Cheryl Bentsen,Cheryl Bensten
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Author : Cheryl Bentsen,Cheryl Bensten
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Maasai (African people)
ISBN : UCSC:32106018493178

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Maasai Days by Cheryl Bentsen,Cheryl Bensten Pdf

Fifty years after Isak Dinesen memoralized the Maasai in Out of Africa, journalist Cheryl Bentsen presents the personal story of her six-year relationship with these proud and independent people caught on the brink of modern civilization. In a book sure to appeal to anthropology, African history, and travel buffs, Bentsen illustrates how her Maasai friends are tyring to cope, and shows their abiding dignity in the face of fundamental change. Black-and-white photographs.

Narrating Nature

Mara Jill Goldman
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Author : Mara Jill Goldman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539673

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Narrating Nature by Mara Jill Goldman Pdf

The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.

Masai and I

Virginia Kroll
Masai and I Book PDF

Author : Virginia Kroll
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Maasai (African people)
ISBN : 0140548335

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Masai and I by Virginia Kroll Pdf

At school one day, Linda learns about East Africa and the Masai tribe and in so many ways she begins to compare their way of life to hers in the city.

The Maasai

Jackson OLE KULET
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Author : Jackson OLE KULET
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198081001X

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The Maasai by Jackson OLE KULET Pdf

This book critically looks at what the culture of the Maa people has been and compare it with the hybrid kind that is inevitably emerging. It will not escape the readers' eye that Lemomo Ole Kulet has taken time to interview many elders who still remember what the unadulterated culture looked like. The findings that he gathered from the elders are invaluable and indeed they will become part of the history that will eventually be written while tracing the turbulent path the Maa have trodden to arrive at their present destination.