Dorothy L. Hodgson

Once Intrepid Warriors

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Situating 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780253214515
• ISBN-10: 0253214513
• Artikelnr.: 22212513

Autorenporträt

Dorothy L. Hodgson teaches anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where she is affiliated with the Center for African Studies and the Women's Studies Department.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 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?