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Author : Kioi wa Mbugua
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inkishu written by Kioi wa Mbugua and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mara Jill Goldman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816541949
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Narrating Nature written by Mara Jill Goldman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Author : Kipuri, Naomi
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9966461736
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Oral Literature of the Maasai written by Kipuri, Naomi and published by East African Educational Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in Kajiado County of Kenya. The author listened to many of the narratives and participated in many proverb and riddle telling sessions as she grew up in her Ilbissil village of Kajiado Central Sub-county. However, she recorded most of the examples of oral literature in the early seventies with the help of her mother, who performed the role of the oral artist. Many songs were recorded from live performances. The examples ring with individuality, while also revealing a comprehensive way of life of a people. The images in the literature reveal the concrete life of the Maasai – people living closely with their livestock and engaged in constant struggle with the environment. But like all important literature, the materials here ultimately reveal a people with its moral and spiritual concerns, grappling with questions of human values and relations, struggling for a better social order. This book recommends itself to the general reader. However, the book is more than this: it includes stimulating discussions of examples, as well as review questions and exercises. The book is highly recommended to students of oral literature at secondary school level and at the university.
Author : Barbara Thrash Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135873550
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults written by Barbara Thrash Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators – past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this book is a valuable research tool that provides quick access for anyone studying black children’s literature – whether one is a student, a librarian charged with maintaining a children’s literature collection, or a scholar of children’s literature. The Fourth Edition of this renowned reference work illuminates African American contributions to children’s literature and books for young adults. The new edition contains updated and new information for existing author/illustrator entries, the addition of approximately 50 new profiles, and a new section listing online resources of interest to the authors and readers of black children’s literature.
Author : Frans Mol
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Maasai Language & Culture written by Frans Mol and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Maasai, basically a cattle-keeping people, live in East Africa on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border. . . . [Their] language and culture [are] under great stress and pressure from present-day ideas of modern life. . . . Maasai children learn their language from their mothers, but most of these children when they go to school will never learn to read or write in their mother tongue. None of them will ever know the basics of the grammar of their own language. This book tries to preserve as much as possible of Maa, the language, and Olmaa, the culture. It may best be described as a depository of linguistic and cultural data of the Maasai." -- Introduction, p. iii.
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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book American Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Mission Field written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Maasai Grammar for Beginners written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiona Bowie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134411774
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption written by Fiona Bowie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which regulates the exchange of children within and between countries. However a scarcity of research into cross-cultural attitudes to child-rearing, and a wider lack of awareness of cultural difference in adoptive contexts, has meant that the assumptions underlying Western childcare policy are seldom examined or made explicit. These articles look at adoption practices from Africa, Oceania, Asia and Central America, including examples of societies in which children are routinely separated from their biological parents or passed through several foster families. Showing the range and flexibility of the child-rearing practices that approximate to the Western term 'adoption', they demonstrate the benefits of a cross-cultural appreciation of family life, and allow a broader understanding of the varied relationships that exist between children and adoptive parents.
Author : Archibald Norman Tucker
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Maasai Grammar, with Vocabulary written by Archibald Norman Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Spencer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134371675
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Maasai of Matapato written by Paul Spencer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study pioneered the relation of the dynamics of the Maasai age organization to tensions within the family. Together, these provide the twin strands of a man's career, opposed ritually and reflecting a fundamental ambivalence in Maasai thought. This analysis is illustrated with case material from the Matapato: a typical Maasai group.
Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178673138X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book A History of Water: Series III, Volume 3 written by Terje Tvedt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major changes in policy and management , across the entire agricultural production chain, will be needed to ensure the best use of available water resources in meeting growing demands for food and other agricultural products. This new volume in the successful History of Water Series focuses on the African continent to address this key issue. Humanity has its roots in Africa and many of our food systems developed there. All types of agricultural production are present and the sheer size of the continent offers wide ecological variation from extreme desert to dense rainforest. Drawing together leading international contributors from a wide variety of disciplines Water and Food offers new insights into the evolution of food systems, from early hunter gatherers to the global challenges of the modern world.
Author : Henry R. ole Kulet
Publisher : Longhorn Kenya
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Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Blossoms of the Savannah written by Henry R. ole Kulet and published by Longhorn Kenya. This book was released on 2008 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blossoms of the Savannah is the story of two sisters, Taiyo and Resian, who are on the verge of womanhood and torn between their personal ambitions and the humiliating duty to the Nasila tradition. Relocation to their rural home heralds a cultural alienation born of their refusal to succumb to female genital mutilation and early marriages. In pursuit of the delicate and elusive socio-economic cultural balance in Nasila, Ole. Kaelo, the girls' father is ensnared by a corrupt extortionist. To extricate himself he sends his daughters into a flat-spin labyrinth from which they have to struggle to escape.
Author : Mbogoni, Lawrence E.Y.
Publisher : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9987082424
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Human Sacrifice and the Supernatural in African History written by Mbogoni, Lawrence E.Y. and published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since time immemorial, human beings the world over have sought answers to the vexing questions of their origins, sickness, death and after death; the meaning of natural phenomena such as earthquakes, eclipses of the sun and moon, birth of twins etc. and how to protect themselves from such mysterious events. They invented God and gods and the occult sciences (witch craft, divination and soothsaying) in order to seek the protection of supernatural powers while individuals used them to gain power to dominate others and to accumulate wealth. Human sacrifice was one way in which they sought to expiate the gods for what they believed were punishments for their transgressions. One example, the Ghana Asante Kingdom's very origins are associated with human sacrifice. On the eve of war against Denkyira, individuals volunteered themselves to be sacrificed in order to guarantee victory. Later, human sacrifice in Asante was mainly politically motivated as kings and religious leaders offered human sacrifice in remembrance of their ancestral spirits and to seek their protection against their enemies. The Asante Kingdom is one of several examples included in this study of human sacrifice and ritual killing on the African continent. Case studies include practices in Sierra Leone, Tanzania (Mainland), Zanzibar, Uganda and Swaziland. Advertisements relating to the occult was a common feature of Drum magazine, the popular South African magazine in Southern, Eastern and Central Africa in late years of colonial and early years of postcolonial periods, indicating a wide belief in these practices among the people in these countries? Each case examined is introduced by an expose of folklore that puts in perspective beliefs in the supernatural and how folklore continues to perpetuate them. Through careful study of these select cases, this book highlights general features of human sacrifice which recur with striking uniformity in all parts of sub Saharan Africa, and why they persist until today. He draws upon extensive written sources to expose these practices in other cultures including those in Western societies.
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The African Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan H. Jacobs
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Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Traditional Political Organization of the Pastoral Masai written by Alan H. Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The East written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
