Among the Maasai

2019-09-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Juliet Cutler
Release : 2019-09-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 731/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Among the Maasai written by Juliet Cutler. This book was released on 2019-09-10. 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.

Being Maasai

1993-04-01 History

Author : Thomas Spear
Release : 1993-04-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Being Maasai written by Thomas Spear. This book was released on 1993-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania. But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people have “become” something else. And what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is still changing today. This collection by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists examines how Maasai identity has been created, evoked, contested, and transformed from the time of their earliest settlement in Kenya to the present, as well as raising questions about the nature of ethnicity generally.

Among the Maasai

2019 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Juliet Cutler
Release : 2019
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 725/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Among the Maasai written by Juliet Cutler. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cutler left the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa, she did so in the hopes that her work there would empower young women who faced overwhelming odds. Working alongside local educators, she was transformed by the community she found in Tanzania.

My Maasai Life

2010-07-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Robin Wiszowaty
Release : 2010-07-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 23X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book My Maasai Life written by Robin Wiszowaty. This book was released on 2010-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in suburban Illinois, Robin Wiszowaty leads a typical middle-class American life. Hers is a world of gleaming shopping malls, congested freeways, and neighborhood gossip. But from an early age, she has longed to break free of this existence and discover something deeper. What it is, she doesn't quite know. Yet she knows in her heart there simply has to be more. Through a fortunate twist of fate, Robin seizes an opportunity to travel to rural Kenya and join an impoverished Maasai community. Suddenly her days are spent hauling water, evading giraffes, and living in a tiny hut made of cow dung with her adoptive family. She is forced to face issues she's never considered: extreme poverty, drought, female circumcision, corruption — and discovers love in the most unexpected places. In the open wilds of the dusty savannah, this Maasai life is one she could never have imagined.

Once Intrepid Warriors

2001 History

Author : Dorothy Louise Hodgson
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 096/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Once Intrepid Warriors written by Dorothy Louise Hodgson. This book was released on 2001. 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.

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