Maasai

Author : Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 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.

Author : Jackson Ntirkana,Wilson Meikuaya
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,8 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.

Author : Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : New York : Rosen Publishing Group
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823917576

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Maasai by Tiyambe Zeleza Pdf

Looks at the history, culture, language, religion, music, and rituals of this East African people

Author : Solomon Bekure
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Animal industry
ISBN : 9290531762

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Maasai Herding by Solomon Bekure Pdf

Author : Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0520063252

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The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior by Tepilit Ole Saitoti Pdf

Recounts the author's traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming into manhood in Maasailand and of his education in Europe and America.

Author : Robin Wiszowaty
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 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.

Author : Katherine Homewood,Patti Kristjanson,P. Trench
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780387874920

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Staying Maasai? by Katherine Homewood,Patti Kristjanson,P. Trench Pdf

The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world’s most outstanding biodiversity resources. Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of poverty and environmental problems for these rural populations, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife to generate income that could underpin equally sustainable development. Given the enduring interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and ecosystems seem a natural case for green development based on community conservation. This volume is focused on the livelihoods of the Maasai in two different countries - Kenya and Tanzania. This cross-border comparative analysis looks at what people do, why they choose to do it, with what success and with what implications for wildlife. The comparative approach makes it possible to unpack the interaction of conservation and development, to identify the main drivers of livelihoods change and the main outcomes of wildlife conservation or other land use policies, while controlling for confounding factors in these semi-arid and perennially variable systems. This synthesis draws out lessons about the successes and failures of community conservation-based approach to development in Maasailand under different national political and economic contexts and different local social and historical particularities.

Author : Jamie Hetfield
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1404255516

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The Maasai of East Africa by Jamie Hetfield Pdf

Describes the customs, traditions, food, clothes, and homes of the Maasai people, who live in the grasslands of eastern Africa.

Author : Thomas T. Spear,Richard D. Waller
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 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

Author : Carmen Agra Deedy
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781682631119

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14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy Pdf

This New York Times bestseller recounts the true story of the touching gift bestowed on the US by the Maasai people in the wake of the September 11 attacks. In June of 2002, a mere nine months since the September 11 attacks, a very unusual ceremony begins in a far-flung village in western Kenya. An American diplomat is surrounded by hundreds of Maasai people. A gift is about to be bestowed upon the American men, women, and children, and he is there to accept it. The gift is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. Hearts are raw as these legendary Maasai warriors offer their gift to a grieving people half a world away. Word of the gift will travel newswires around the globe, and for the heartsick American nation, the gift of fourteen cows emerges from the choking dust and darkness as a soft light of hope―and friendship. With stunning paintings from Thomas Gonzalez, master storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy (in collaboration with Naiyomah) hits all the right notes in this elegant story of generosity that crosses boundaries, nations, and cultures.

Author : Dorothy L. Hodgson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.

Author : Kipuri, Naomi
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 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.

Author : Jan Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 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.

Author : Mara Jill Goldman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 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.

Author : Samantha Kimambo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780955685705

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The English Maasai & Other Truths by Samantha Kimambo Pdf

The English Maasai is based on the true story of an average working young Mother who trades life in London for East Africa. Starting off in Kenya, she becomes involved in some community project work. Through the work she meets a group of Maasai warriors from Tanzania, and an amazing culture crossing friendship blooms. When it is time for the warriors to return home for a celebration, they invite her and her son along. It turns out to be the most amazing and life changing adventure. The story brings forward many questions and issues that we all have to deal with, from social expectation to moral obligations and family betrayal, this is a book which carries much of life in a brutally honest, sometimes funny, tragic and very emotional presentation.