Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development
ISBN-10
025333909X
ISBN-13
9780253339096
Category
Maasai (African people)
Pages
333
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Author
Dorothy Louise Hodgson

Description

Drawing on archival sources as well as her extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, Dorothy L. Hodgson explores the ways identity, development, and gender have interacted to shape the Maasai into who and what they are today. By situating the Maasai in the political, economic, and social context of Tanzania and of world events, Hodgson shows how outside forces, and views of development in particular, have influenced Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations.

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