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Author: Frans Mol Publisher: ISBN: Category : Maasai language Languages : en Pages : 440
Book Description
"The Maasai, basically a cattle-keeping people, live in East Africa on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border. . . . [Their] language and culture [are] under great stress and pressure from present-day ideas of modern life. . . . Maasai children learn their language from their mothers, but most of these children when they go to school will never learn to read or write in their mother tongue. None of them will ever know the basics of the grammar of their own language. This book tries to preserve as much as possible of Maa, the language, and Olmaa, the culture. It may best be described as a depository of linguistic and cultural data of the Maasai." -- Introduction, p. iii.
Author: Frans Mol Publisher: ISBN: Category : Maasai language Languages : en Pages : 440
Book Description
"The Maasai, basically a cattle-keeping people, live in East Africa on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border. . . . [Their] language and culture [are] under great stress and pressure from present-day ideas of modern life. . . . Maasai children learn their language from their mothers, but most of these children when they go to school will never learn to read or write in their mother tongue. None of them will ever know the basics of the grammar of their own language. This book tries to preserve as much as possible of Maa, the language, and Olmaa, the culture. It may best be described as a depository of linguistic and cultural data of the Maasai." -- Introduction, p. iii.
Author: Jan Reynolds Publisher: ISBN: 9781600608445 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"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: Lee Cronk Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429979975 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. It is about how Mukogodo people changed their way of life to a radically different one, that is their change as Maasai people, giving them a new way of living, a new language, and a new set of beliefs.
Author: Dorothy Louise Hodgson Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253339096 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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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.
Author: Jackson OLE KULET Publisher: ISBN: 9781980810018 Category : Languages : en Pages : 86
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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.
Author: Carmen Agra Deedy Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 1682631117 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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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: Tepilit Ole Saitoti Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520063259 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 180
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Recounts the author's traditional childhood, adolescence, and coming into manhood in Maasailand and of his education in Europe and America.
Author: Thomas T. Spear Publisher: James Currey Publishers ISBN: 9780852552155 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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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
Author: Frans Mol
Author: Frans Mol
Author: David ole Munke
Author: Jan Reynolds
Author: Lee Cronk
Author: Dorothy Louise Hodgson
Author: Jackson OLE KULET
Author: Carmen Agra Deedy
Author: Kioi wa Mbugua
Author: Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Author: Thomas T. Spear