Youth and Experiences of Ageing Among Maa: Models of Society Evoked by the Maasai, Samburu, and Chamus of Kenya

by Paul Spencer and Professor of African Anthropology School of Oriental and African Studies Paul Spencer

The Maa of East Africa are a cluster of related pastoral peoples who share a social organization based on age. This groups men into life-long cohorts from their initiation in youth, regardless of family wealth. Historically, this type of pre-market society has been described in every continent, but East Africa provides the principal surviving region of age-based societies, among whom the Maasai are the best known. In this volume, comparison between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110372320
• ISBN13: 9783110372328
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.2"