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

by 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"