Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa (Eastern African Studies)

by Thomas Spear and Richard Waller

Thomas Spear (Editor) and Richard Waller (Editor)

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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

  • ISBN10 0852552165
  • ISBN13 9780852552162
  • Publish Date 21 January 1993 (first published 1 January 1993)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 9 October 1997
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint James Currey
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English