Youth and experiences of ageing among Maa : : models of society evoked by the Maasai, Samburu, and Chamus of Kenya / / Paul Spencer.
The Maa of East Africa are a cluster of related pastoral peoples who share a social organization based on age. This groups men into life-long cohorts from their initiation in youth, regardless of family wealth. Historically, this type of pre-market society has been described in every continent, but...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Warsaw, [Poland] ;, Berlin, [Germany] : : De Gruyter Open,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (plates, 196 pages) :; illustrations, tables, charts, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Reminiscence and the Manipulation of Experience
- Part I: The Maasai Age System (1976-77)
- 2 The Natural Substructure of Age-set Systems and the Social Construction of Ageing among Maasai
- 3 Stratification and Social Mobility: Patterns of Inequality among Maasai and Hindus
- 4 Anger, Comradeship and Age-set Exogamy among Maasai: an Elaboration of Alliance Theory
- Part II: Samburu Ritual and Cosmology (1957-60, 1962)
- 5 Arenas of Dance among Samburu
- 6 Anxiety and the Interpretation of Ritual among Samburu
- 7 The Transfiguration of Samburu Religion
- Part III: Indigenous Democracy and Change Among the Chamus (1959, 1977)
- 8 The Evolution of Indigenous Knowledge among Chamus - or Global Diffusion?
- 9 Maa Democracy, Development and Alternative Realities: an Open Letter
- References
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- List of Plates
- Subject Index
- Name Index