Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa.

PART I - Introduction by T. Spear - PART II: BECOMING MAAS AI - Dialects, Sectiolects, or Simply Lects?: The Maa Lang uage in Time Perspective by G. Sommer & R. Vossen - Be coming Maasailand by J.E.G. Sutton - Maasia Expansion and the New East African Pastoralism by J.G. Galaty - Aspects of 'Becoming Turkana': Interactions and Assimilation Betw een Maa- and Ateker-Speakers by J. Lamphear - Defeat & Dispersal: The Laikipiak and their Neighbours at the End of the Nineteenth Century by N. Sobania - Being 'Maasai', but not 'People of Cattle': Arusha Agricultural Maasai in the Nineteenth Century by T. Spear - PART III - BEING MAAS AI - Becoming Maasai, Being in Time by P. Spencer - The Wo rld of Telelia: Reflections of a Maasai Woman in Mataparo by T. Chieni & P. Spencer - 'The Eye' that Wants a Per son, Where Can It Not See?': Inclusion, Exclusion, and a B oundary in Maasai Identity by J.G. Galaty - Aesthetics, E xpertise, and Ethnicity: Okiek and Maasai Perspectives on Personal Ornament by D. Klumpp & C. Kratz - PART IV: C ONTESTATIONS & REDEFINITIONS - Acceptees and Aliens: K ikuyu Settlement in Maasailand by R. Waller - Land as Ours e, Land as Mine: Economic, Political and Ecological Margin alization in Kajiando District by D.J. Campbell - Maa-Spea kers of the Northern Desert: Recent Developments in Ariaal and Rendille Identity by E.