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Introduction to From Mukogodo to Maasai

Some Basic Facts about Kenya. Independence in 1963 from BritainAbout twice the size of Nevada37 million peopleMajor exports: tea, horticultural products (flowers shipped to Europe), coffeeDemocracy although last presidential and parliamentary election (2007) marred by fraud and riotsProvides shelter to almost a million refugees from Somalia and Uganda.

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Introduction to From Mukogodo to Maasai

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    1. Introduction to From Mukogodo to Maasai

    3. The Laikipia Plateau

    4. Lee Cronk Anthropology Department, Rutgers University (NB) Lived among the Mukogodo, 1986-87, 1992, 1993 His interest: human behavioral ecology

    5. Oil Consumption per person, 2006

    6. What did it mean for the Mukogodo to be hunters and gatherers?

    7. “The Original Affluent Society”

    8. Some anthropological terms Exogamy = marrying outside your group Endogamy = marrying inside your group Lineage exogamy = marrying outside your lineage Patrilocal = answers the question of where the married couple live: they live with the husband’s family or where the husband grew up after marriage

    9. Aidan Southall’s Definition of “Tribe” “A whole society with a high degree of self-sufficiency at a near subsistence level based on a relatively simple technology without writing or literature, politically autonomous and with its own distinctive language, culture, and sense of identity.” Added: a sense of distinct identity---contrast themselves to other groups

    10. The Role of European Colonialism in Creating Ethnicity in Africa Europeans grouped people together; they spoke similar or different languages but didn’t think of themselves as a single tribe In Kenya, each ethnic group was given land for reserves. Europeans created chiefs for each ethnic group to control them through indirect rule This allowed elders to have more control in determining “tradition” to control the younger men and women. European missionaries and African Christians involved in writing down of local languages Migrant men were more prone to tradition to control women in the rural areas---through hometown associations

    11. Hutu Refugees from Burundi’s Violence, 1960s Purity and Exile, by Liisa Malkki (1995) Two groups of Hutus from Burundi One group went to UN refugee camp and had a strong sense of Hutu ethnic identity Another went to live in a Tanzanian town on the border and tried to assimilate as Tanzanians

    12. Current views on African ethnicity “It was not that people were an undifferentiated mass, but that they were differentiated in many subtle and complex ways for different purposes” (Southall, p. 43) “Most Africans moved in and out of multiple identities, defining themselves at one moment as subject to this chief, at another moment as part of this cult, at another moment as part of this clan, and at yet another moment as an initiate in that professional guild” (Ranger, p. 603).

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