The Maasai World

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-85564-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 706 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Worlds

The Maasai World is a comprehensive, diverse and expansive book that provides a window into the world of the Massai and reflects how complex and dynamic small communities, Indigenous and/or peripheral populations around the world evolve and change over time.

The Maasai World portrays change as a constant phenomenon that can be evolutionary or revolutionary affecting the Maasai world in broader and more connected or isolated ways within their vast traditional institutions and organizations. Thus, the thirty-two chapters included in this book provide a holistic approach in engaging original chapters that capture the main debates and themes in the study of indigenous populations. They include:

- the history of the Maasai that covers Maasai land and Maasai people

- identity formation from the past, present and future

- sociocultural expressions, education broadly conceived, religious and belief systems

- environmental concerns as contested terrains and as imagined communities

- the global world of the Maasai and its exposures

- imagining and contemplating Maasai futures

The chapter authors are globally situated in Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States and Canada with interdisciplinary approaches, and diverse theoretical, methodological and practicing methods. The Maasai World will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental studies, history, political science, education, and sociology both at the local and the international level. This book is a one-stop resource for graduate and undergraduate students seeking to learn about the Maasai with holistic depth in a broad and multidisciplinary way.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shani, Serah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I. History of the Maasai: Maasai Land and Maasai People  1. Pluralism in Maasai Land Use and Rights Claims over Time  2. Maasai History in General  3. A History of the Maasai Before Colonialism  4. The Maasai moves, 1913 court case, and their long-term repercussions  5. Maasai history: Tanzania  Part II. Identity Formation: Past, Present and Future  6. Maasai Ethnic Identity  7. The Maasai identity: the case of the Parakou  8. Maasai Indigeneity  9. History of the Maasai: Indigenous Foundations, Colonial Rupture, and Epistemic Persistence  10. Navigating Gender in Maasai Culture: Challenges and Aspirations of Women  Part III. Sociocultural Expressions  11. Maasai Rites of Passage  12. Maasai Language  Part IV. Education Broadly Conceived  13. Reimagining Education for Maasai Pastoralists: Navigating Persistent Challenges and Emerging Opportunities for Culturally Responsive Futures  14. “You are Only a Pen Less from Them”: Maasai Parents’ Hope in Educating Their Children for Future Economic Autonomy  15. Parenting  16. Natural Learning in Maasai Society: Structural, Epistemic, and Ecological Dimensions of Learning  17. Classification of nature and use of plants  Part V. Religious and Belief Systems  18. Invasion of spirits  19. Maasai religion  Part VI. Environmental Concerns: Contested Terrains and Imagined Communities  20. Contemporary Economic Activities Among the Maasai: Adaptation and Sustainability  21. The Political Ecology of Conservation in Tanzania’s Maasai land  22. Mosaics of Institutional Assemblages: Wildlife Conservancies in Kenya  23. Socio-economic and ecological implications of human-wildlife interactions in Enduimet Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania  24. Conservation in Tanzania  25. Divergent histories, convergent models: the evolution of community-based conservation in Kenyan and Tanzanian Maasailand  Part VII. The Global World of the Maasai and Its Exposures  26. Tourism  27. Resilience, Recovery, and Reform: A Longitudinal Study of Stakeholder Collaboration in the Maasai Mara Conservancies during and after COVID-19  28. Global Debates, Identity, and Practice: How the Maasai fit into the global discourses of indigeneity  Part VIII. Imagining and Contemplating Maasai futures  29. Embodied Transitions: The Evolving Narratives of Female Genital Mutilation and Maasai Womanhood  30. Gender roles: Maasai women and their role in the community and the global market economy  31. Maasai Youth  32. Aging between evolving worlds: Maasai-researcher collaborations and dilemmas

Über Autor(innen)

Serah Shani is an associate professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Mercy University in New York. She graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a PhD in Anthropology and Education. Dr. Shani, who is a Maasai herself, grew up in Maasai Land in Narok county and continues to pursue her ethnographic research among the Maasai. Her most recent research is funded by a generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation for her project titled The Cultural Evolution of the Conscience, Virtues, Character Development, and Human Progress. Dr. Shani is author of two books: African Immigrant Families in the United States: Transnational Lives and Schooling and Indigenous Elites in Africa: The Case of Kenya’s Maasai. Her articles and book reviews have been published by the Journal of Anthropology and Education Quarterly, the Journal of Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of African Studies, and City and Society. Dr. Shani also speaks five languages spoken in Africa and the African Diaspora that include the Maasai language.