UID:
edocfu_9959234838002883
Format:
1 online resource (295 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-134-37166-7
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1-138-14683-8
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1-134-37167-5
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1-280-07546-5
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0-203-58340-X
Series Statement:
Routledge classic ethnographies
Content:
This study is the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organization to tensions within the family.
Note:
"First published 1988 by Manchester University Press"--T.p. verso.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps and figures; Preface to new edition; Preface and acknowledgements; Note on Maasai terms; Introduction; The Pastoral Enterprise; Investment in Marriage; The Uncertain Gift of Life; The Maternal Bond and the Paternal Yoke in Childhood; Induction into the Age System; The Upsurge of Ritual Rebellion; The Manyata as a Republic; Anger, Constraint and the Ideology of Moranhood; Eunoto; The Transition to Elderhood and Relations through Women; The Women's Collective Response; Elderhood and the Paternal Yoke; The Meat Feast
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Conclusion: Rituals of Rebellion and the Trusteeship of Maasai CultureReferences; Subject index; Maasai index; Author index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-34863-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-31723-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203583401
