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Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa - Eastern African Studies
Thomas Spear
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Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa - Eastern African Studies
Thomas Spear
Everyone "knows" the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania. But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have "become" something else.
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Contributor Bio: Spear, Thomas Thomas Spear is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of "Kenya's Past: An Introduction to Historical Methods in Africa" (1981) and coeditor of "Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa" (1993).
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 1993 |
| ISBN13 | 9780821410455 |
| Publishers | Ohio University Press |
| Genre | Ethnic Orientation > Native American |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 133 × 216 × 26 mm · 526 g |
| Editor | Spear, Thomas |
| Editor | Waller, Richard |
