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Author : Sidney Langford Hinde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last of the Masai written by Sidney Langford Hinde and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jackson Ntirkana
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1927435013
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Last Maasai Warriors written by Jackson Ntirkana and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How two young Maasai tribesmen became warriors, scholars, and leaders in their community and to the world. They are living testament to a vanishing way of life on the African savannah. Wilson and Jackson are two brave warriors of the Maasai, an intensely proud culture built on countless generations steeped in the mystique of tradition, legend and prophecy. They represent the final generation to literally fight for their way of life, coming of age by proving their bravery in the slaying of a lion. They are the last of the great warriors. Yet, as the first generation to fully embrace the modern ways and teachings of Western civilization, the two warriors have adapted — at times seamlessly, at times with unimaginable difficulty -- in order to help their people. They strive to preserve a disappearing culture, protecting the sanctity of their elders while paving the way for future generations. At this watershed moment in their history, the warriors carry the weight of their forbearers while embracing contemporary culture and technology. While their struggle to achieve this balance unfolds exquisitely in this story, their discoveries resonate well beyond the Maasai Mara.
Author : Juliet Cutler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631526731
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Among the Maasai written by Juliet Cutler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1999, Juliet Cutler leaves the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa. Captivated by the stories of young Maasai women determined to get an education in the midst of a culture caught between the past and the future, she seeks to empower and support her students as they struggle to define their own fates. Cutler soon learns that behind their shy smiles and timid facades, her Maasai students are much stronger than they appear. For them, adolescence requires navigating a risky world of forced marriages, rape, and genital cutting, all in the midst of a culture grappling with globalization. In the face of these challenges, these young women believe education offers hope, and so, against all odds, they set off alone―traveling hundreds of miles and even forsaking their families―simply to go to school. Twenty years of involvement with this school and its students reveal to Cutler the important impacts of education across time, as well as the challenges inherent in tackling issues of human rights and extreme poverty across vastly different cultures. Working alongside local educators, Cutler emerges transformed by the community she finds in Tanzania and by witnessing the life-changing impact of education on her students. Proceeds from the sale of this book support education for at-risk Maasai girls.
Author : Grady McCright
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595515061
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Massai written by Grady McCright and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1979, this writer interviewed Alberta Begay in a nursing home in Alamogordo, New Mexico. She was the youngest daughter of Massai, a Chiricahua brave. This warrior slipped off the prisoner train several hundred miles east of New Mexico in 1886 when the captive Apaches were being relocated to Florida. Massai walked back to New Mexico without being detected, stole a Mescalero woman, who bore him five children. Massai and his family roamed, raided and killed as free Indians in New Mexico and Arizona Territories as well as Mexico. In 1906, cowboys finally killed him and cremated his body. The life and times of Massai are riveting to say the least; although history knows few details concerning this wilderness family saga. Unfortunately, those exciting exploits are lost to the grave forever. This effort is, of necessity, a historical fiction based on the known facts of Massai's life. If this not the way it was, it is the way it could have been."--Amazon.com
Author : Adam Scott Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844916
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Animals of the Masai Mara written by Adam Scott Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest attractions of a trip to Kenya is the chance to see animals such as lions, cheetah, leopards, zebra, and giraffe up close and in their natural habitats. Animals of the Masai Mara is a lavish photographic guide that explores the charismatic wildlife most likely to be encountered by a safari visitor to the Masai Mara National Reserve in southwest Kenya. More than 140 stunning photographs showcase 65 mammals and 17 reptile species, including 6 snakes. Designed to be informative and locally accurate, rather than purely identification-based, this easy-to-use book pays particular attention to wildlife behavior and is written from the firsthand experiences of the authors and the knowledge of local safari guides. Numerous "Top Tips" throughout show readers how and where to locate specific species. The only field guide to focus solely on the wildlife of the Masai Mara National Reserve, Animals of the Masai Mara will be indispensable to visitors to this famous park and all nature enthusiasts with an interest in this area of the world. The only photographic guide specific to the animals of the Masai Mara National Reserve More than 140 remarkable photographs covering 65 mammals and 17 reptile species, including 6 snakes Accessible text explores animal behavior and other interesting facts A brief and informative introduction to the habitats of the Masai Mara
Author : Corinne Hofmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061131539
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The White Masai written by Corinne Hofmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.
Author : Justin Cartwright
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1529340357
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Masai Dreaming written by Justin Cartwright and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * WINNER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN M-NET LITERARY AWARD * A tale of deception, misunderstanding, and betrayal set between modern-day Africa and Nazi-occupied France. Haunted by his dreams of the Masai, Tim Curtiz journeys to East Africa to research and write a screenplay about the enigmatic Claudia Cohn-Casson, a French anthropologist who studied the Masai in the late 1930s and was then deported to Auschwitz upon her return to Paris. 'It is like a little death to put this book down' Times Literary Supplement
Author : Corinne Hofmann
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061131520
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The White Masai written by Corinne Hofmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This page-turning tale puts an African spin on "Not Without My Daughter" when a woman abandons her business, family, and own country to follow a Masai warrior. 8-page color photo insert.
Author : Frank Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780732295653
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)
Download or read book The Last Maasai Warrior written by Frank Coates and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men, an ancient nation ...and an impossible choice An ancient Maasai legend tells of a child born holding a stone in its palm. The story is a warning, and now a baby is born holding a stone in not one but each of its tiny fists ...In 1911, the British government breaks a promise giving the Maasai control of their traditional lands - and now they must choose between war with a powerful enemy or a perilous trek to the land allocated them. Ole Sadera has risen from village scapegoat to leadership of his people. Now he struggles with rapid change - and his desire for another man's wife. George Coll arrives in East Africa to face impossible choices of his own. The Maasai gather to make their historic decision ...and an Empire holds its breath. 'won't disappoint ...exposes a history that changed an unassuming people forever' - BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER 'remarkable ...adverturesome ...suffused with tenderness' - AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW 'blockbuster adventure with authenticity' - WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
Author : Carmen Agra Deedy
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1682631117
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)
Download or read book 14 Cows for America written by Carmen Agra Deedy and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller recounts the true story of the touching gift bestowed on the US by the Maasai people in the wake of the September 11 attacks. In June of 2002, a mere nine months since the September 11 attacks, a very unusual ceremony begins in a far-flung village in western Kenya. An American diplomat is surrounded by hundreds of Maasai people. A gift is about to be bestowed upon the American men, women, and children, and he is there to accept it. The gift is as unexpected as it is extraordinary. Hearts are raw as these legendary Maasai warriors offer their gift to a grieving people half a world away. Word of the gift will travel newswires around the globe, and for the heartsick American nation, the gift of fourteen cows emerges from the choking dust and darkness as a soft light of hope―and friendship. With stunning paintings from Thomas Gonzalez, master storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy (in collaboration with Naiyomah) hits all the right notes in this elegant story of generosity that crosses boundaries, nations, and cultures.
Author : Mara Jill Goldman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539677
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 : Adam Scott Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844924
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Birds of the Masai Mara written by Adam Scott Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds of the Masai Mara is a remarkably beautiful photographic guide featuring the bird species likely to be encountered by visitors to the popular Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. With an eye-catching layout, easy-to-use format, and no-jargon approach, the book contains more than 300 stunning photographs covering over 200 species of birds and is accessible and informative, rather than purely identification-based. A handy, brief introduction provides visitors with background on the habitats of the national park, and the guide's habitat-based approach makes it simple to identify any bird species according to where it is found. Based on the firsthand experiences of the author, Birds of the Masai Mara is an ideal companion to all those visiting the national reserve and to bird aficionados interested in learning more about the region. The only photographic guide to focus solely on the bird species of the Masai Mara National Reserve More than 300 remarkable photographs covering over 200 species Accessible text explores bird species behavior and species etymology A brief and handy introduction examines the habitats of the Masai Mara Easy-to-use habitat-based layout makes exciting birdwatching easy
Author : Dorothy Louise Hodgson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253339096
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Once Intrepid Warriors written by Dorothy Louise Hodgson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810980990
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Maasai written by Tepilit Ole Saitoti and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Named for the language they speak--Maa, a distinct but unwritten African tongue--the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania still live much as they did thousands of years ago, herding cattle, sheep, and goats and existing in harmony with their peaceful environment in and around the Great Rift Valley. Tall, proud, aristocratic in bearing and manner, these handsome people have made their way into the twentieth century with their ancient customs and the structure of their society preserved to an unusual extent. For the first time ever, this book--a kind of autobiography, since it is written by a Maasai--documents their living story. It recounts the ancient legends, reveals the songs and prayers, and vividly describes the stages of life for a Maasai: childhood, initiation, warrior rank, and finally elderhood."--Publisher's description.
Author : Corinne Hofmann
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1908129204
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Reunion in Barsaloi written by Corinne Hofmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all those who remembered her - by Lketinga, who still thought of her as his 'wife number one', by his brother, James, now a schoolteacher and especially by Lketinga's mother, who had looked after Corinne with such care all those years before. Corinne Hofmann revisits an area of a country which she cares about passionately, describing in her immensely readable style the changes she saw after her time away, and once again bringing to life the atmosphere and characters in the Masai village.
Author : Jackson OLE KULET
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980810018
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Maasai written by Jackson OLE KULET and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically looks at what the culture of the Maa people has been and compare it with the hybrid kind that is inevitably emerging. It will not escape the readers' eye that Lemomo Ole Kulet has taken time to interview many elders who still remember what the unadulterated culture looked like. The findings that he gathered from the elders are invaluable and indeed they will become part of the history that will eventually be written while tracing the turbulent path the Maa have trodden to arrive at their present destination.
Author : Dorothy L. Hodgson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253214515
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Once Intrepid Warriors written by Dorothy L. Hodgson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once Intrepid Warriors 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 world events, Dorothy L. Hodgson shows how outside forces, and views of development in particular, have influenced Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations. Five profiles of Maasai men and women interspersed within the text bring Maasai voices to life and show that they were never passive witnesses to their own history."--BOOK JACKET.
