Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa (Eastern African Studies)

by ThomasSpear (Editor), RichardWaller (Editor)

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  1993

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  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.