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A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related forms of oppression. Heather D. Switzer's interviews with over 100 Kenyan Maasai schoolgirls challenge the widespread view of education as a silver bullet solution to global poverty. In their own voices, the girls offer incisive insights into their commitments, aspirations, and desires. Switzer weaves this ethnographic material into an astute analysis of historical literature, education and development documents, and theoretical literature.

Kenya --- Educational anthropology --- Women, Maasai --- Maasai (African people) --- Girls, Maasai --- Girls, Masai --- Maasai girls --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Ethnology --- Maasai women --- Women, Masai --- Women, Masai (African people) --- Campus cultures --- Culture and education --- Education and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Culture --- Education --- Social conditions. --- Philosophy --- Kajiado District (Kenya) --- Kajiado, Kenya (District) --- Social conditions --- Girls --- Secondary education --- Book

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Despite the easy dismissal by elites of the priorities and perspectives of grassroots women, she shows how Maasai women have always had powerful ways to confront and challenge injustice, express their priorities, and reveal the limits of rights-based legal ideals.

Non-governmental organizations --- Women, Maasai --- Maasai (African people) --- Women's rights --- Customary law --- Maasai women --- Women, Masai --- Women, Masai (African people) --- Customs (Law) --- Folk law --- Usage and custom (Law) --- Social norms --- Common law --- Time immemorial (Law) --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Ethnology --- INGOs (International agencies) --- International non-governmental organizations --- NGOs (International agencies) --- Nongovernmental organizations --- Organizations, Non-governmental (International agencies) --- Private and voluntary organizations (International agencies) --- PVOs (International agencies) --- International agencies --- Nonprofit organizations --- Rights of women --- Women --- Human rights --- Political aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social aspects --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- menneskerettigheter --- frivillige organisasjoner --- sosiale forhold --- lover --- kvinner --- masai --- Tanzania --- Law, Primitive --- Traditional law

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People, livestock and wildlife have lived together on the savannas of East Africa for millennia. Their coexistence has declined as conservation policies increasingly exclude people and livestock from national wildlife parks, and fast-growing human populations and development push wildlife and pastoralists onto ever more marginal lands. The result has been less wildlife, and more pastoral people struggling to diversify their livelihoods as access to pasture and water becomes harder to find. This book examines those livelihood and land use strategies in detail. In an integrated research effort that involved researchers, local communities and policy analysts, surveys were carried out across a wide range of Maasai communities providing contrasting land tenure and national policies and varying degrees of intensification of agriculture, tourism and other activities. The aim was to create a better understanding of current livelihood patterns and the decisions facing Maasai at the start of the 21st Century in the context of ongoing environmental, political, and societal change. With a research design that linked quantitative and qualitative methods and research teams across multiple pastoral sites for the first time, a comparison of livelihood strategies and returns to livestock, crops, wildlife tourism, and other activities across Kenyan and Tanzanian Maasailand was possible. While livestock remains the critical anchor for most Maasai households, many are obtaining income from a variety of alternative sources. Unfortunately, income from wildlife/tourism, an option seen as most desirable by many because of its potential to provide economically and environmentally ‘win-win’ situations, still benefits relatively few Maasai. Similarly, although governments favor agricultural intensification, significant crop income or enhanced food security from subsistence cropping elude most. This book provides a rich source of new data from across Maasailand and its unparallelled multi-site comparative analyses give valuable lessons of broader applicability. It is a valuable resource for anyone, researchers, development workers and policy makers, who is concerned with improving environmental as well as economic security on the wildlife-rich Maasai pastoral lands in Kenya and Tanzania.

Maasai (African people) --- Nature conservation --- Savanna ecology --- Sustainable development --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Savannas --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Economic conditions. --- Environmental aspects --- Ecology --- Conservation --- Environment. --- Landscape ecology. --- Nature conservation. --- Anthropology. --- Demography. --- Nature Conservation. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Economic development --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Ethnology --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Human beings --- Primitive societies

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Time, Space and the Unknown follows on from The Maasai of Matapoto and The Samburu to show how uncertainty and misfortune influence the social life of the Maasai.

Maasai (African people) --- Cosmology, Maasai. --- Space and time. --- Age groups --- Groups, Age --- Peer groups --- Social generations --- Social groups --- Cohort analysis --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Ethnology --- Cosmology, Masai --- Maasai cosmology --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Psychology. --- Cosmology --- Massaï (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Cosmologie --- Espace et temps --- Groupes d'âge --- Rites et cérémonies --- Psychologie

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""[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done.... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them."" -- Andrew ShryockIn contemporar

Maasai (African people) --- Women, Maasai --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Ethnology --- Maasai women --- Women, Masai --- Women, Masai (African people) --- Religion. --- Religious life --- Congregation of the Holy Ghost --- Catholic Church --- Holy Ghost Fathers --- Congrégation du St. Esprit --- Genossenschaft vom Hl. Geist --- Spiritains --- Spiritans --- Missions --- Ethnology - Syria - Damascus. --- Social structure --- Group identity --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교 --- Damascus (Syria) --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs.