Once intrepid warriors : gender, ethnicity, and the cultural politics of Maasai development / Dorothy L. Hodgson.

Author/creator Hodgson, Dorothy Louise
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentBook review (H-Net)
Subjects

Contents 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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index.
LCCN 00050640
ISBN025333909X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253339096 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253214513 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253214515 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks DT443.3 .M37 H63 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold