1st Edition
Time, Space and the Unknown Maasai Configurations of Power and Providence
By Paul Spencer
Copyright 2003
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. Uncertainty is an aspect of existence among the Maasai in East Africa. They take ritual precautions against mystical misfortune, especially at their ceremonial gatherings, which exude displays of confidence, and generate a sense of time, space, community, and being. Yet their performances are undermined by a concern for clandestine psychopaths who are thought to create... Read more
Paul Spencer is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at SOAS and Honorary Director of the International African Institute. He has published extensively on age systems and pastoralism in East Africa; and the present work follows from his earlier books on The Samburu (1965) and The Maasai of Matapato (1988) both now reissued by Routledge.
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Paul Spencer
