The Maasai World

The Maasai World is a comprehensive, diverse and expansive book that provides a window into the world of the Massai and reflects how complex and dynamic small communities, Indigenous and/or peripheral populations around the world evolve and change over time.

The Maasai World portrays change as a constant phenomenon that can be evolutionary or revolutionary affecting the Maasai world in broader and more connected or isolated ways within their vast traditional institutions and organizations. Thus, the thirty-two chapters included in this book provide a holistic approach in engaging original chapters that capture the main debates and themes in the study of indigenous populations. They include:

• the history of the Maasai that covers Maasai land and Maasai people
• identity formation from the past, present and future
• sociocultural expressions, education broadly conceived, religious and belief systems
• environmental concerns as contested terrains and as imagined communities
• the global world of the Maasai and its exposures
• imagining and contemplating Maasai futures

The chapter authors are globally situated in Africa, Europe, Asia and the United States and Canada with interdisciplinary approaches, and diverse theoretical, methodological and practicing methods. The Maasai World will be of interest to scholars from many disciplines, including Indigenous studies, anthropology, archaeology, geography, environmental history, political science, education, and sociology both at the local and the international world and a good resource for graduate and undergraduate students, as a one-stop to learn about the Maasai in with holistic depth, in a broad and multidisciplinary way.