Description
Book SynopsisSituating the Maasai in the larger political, economic, and social context of Kenya and world events, this book shows how broader forces have had an impact on the construction of Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations. It focuses on how development has affected Maasai lives.
Trade Review[T]his is a well-researched and innovative account. The 'intrepid women' of the French army have found their historian.42 2012
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seeing Maasai
1. Gender, Generation, and Ethnicity: Being Maasai Men and Women
Maasai Portrait 1: Koko
2. Modernist Orders: Colonialism and the Production of Marginality
Maasai Portrait 2: Wanga
3. Why Are You in Such a Hurry? Development and Decolonization
Maasai Portrait 3: Thomas
4. Politics of the Postcolonial Periphery: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
Maasai Portrait 4: Edward Moringe Sokoine
5. Poverty and Progress: Gender, Ethnicity, and Pastoralist Development
Maasai Portrait 5: Mary
6. The Gendered Contradictions of Modernity and Marginality
Conclusion: Maasai Pasts, Maasai Futures
Epilogue: The Last of the Maasai?
