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Maasai (African people) --- Sex role --- Women, Maasai --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions

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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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Maasai (African people) --- Women, Maasai --- Women photographers --- Maasai women --- Women, Masai --- Women, Masai (African people) --- Women as photographers --- Lumbwa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Maa (Kenyan and Tanzanian people) --- Masai --- Masai (African people) --- Massai (African people) --- Social life and customs&delete& --- Exhibitions --- Pictorial works --- National Museums of Kenya --- Übersee-Museum Bremen --- Deutsches Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum --- Museum für Natur-, Völker- und Handelskunde (Bremen, Germany) --- Bremen. --- Überseemuseum Bremen --- Bremen (Germany). --- Städtisches Museum für Natur-, Völker- und Handelskunde (Bremen, Germany) --- Staatliches Museum für Natur-, Völker- und Handelskunde (Germany) --- Musée d'outre-mer à Brême --- Kenya. --- National Museums (Kenya) --- NMK --- Exhibitions. --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- human figures [visual works] --- Maasai [culture or style] --- Ethnology --- Photographers --- National Museum of Kenya --- Social life and customs

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In Africa, why have so many more women converted to Christianity than men? What explains the appeal of Christianity to women? What does religious conversion mean for the negotiation of gender and ethnic identity? What role does religious conversion play as a tool for empowering women? In The Church of Women, Dorothy L. Hodgson looks at how gender has shaped the encounter between missionary priests and Maasai men and women in Tanzania. Building on her extensive experience with Maasai and the Spiritan mi

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.