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Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development
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Product Description
"Once Intrepid Warriors advances a brilliantly persuasive critique of development among the Maasai.... This historical ethnography is a tour de force, counter-balancing the analysis of cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation over the longue duree with intimate and memorable portraits of representative individuals." -- Richard Werbner
"In a series of chapters on the interrelationships of ethnicity, gender, and 'modernity,' Hodgson concludes that it is not the Maasai who have remained static, but rather the external images of them." -- Choice
"... meticulous and well-documented... a valuable resource...." -- Africa
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #344796 in Books
- Published on: 2004-03-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Hodgson presents us with a complex, interactive picture of change over time, one dominated neither by the Maasai nor the state and development apparatus.... The Maasai emerge not simply as the 'intrepid warriors' envisioned by government and development officials, or even sometimes by themselves, but as active agents in the construction of their own history. This history, however, is often contradictory, contested, and varied." --Jane Parpart"
About the Author
Dorothy L. Hodgson teaches anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and is affiliated with the Center for African Studies and the Women's Studies Program. She is editor of Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist and co-editor of "Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa.
