Cultural Participation

Settlement Patterns

Military Organization

Military Installations

Identification

Location

Tribe and Nation

Climate

Sorcery

Magicians and Diviners

Sociocultural Trends

Water Supply

Property System

Real Property

Public Welfare

Income and Demand

External Trade

Labor Supply and Employment

Gender Status

Techniques of Socialization

General Character of Religion

Spirits and Gods

Topography and Geology

Internal Migration

Dwellings

Household

Community Structure

Ornament

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Visual Arts

Dance

Oratory

Reviews and Critiques

Arranging a Marriage

Secondary Marriages

Polygamy

Organized Ceremonial

Social Control

Age Stratification

Family Relationships

Ethnogeography

Population

Composition of Population

Regulation of Marriage

War Veterans

Status and Treatment of the Aged

Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Discipline and Morale

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Pastoral Activities

Division of Labor by Gender

Property in Movables

Bibliographies in Sources

Annual Cycle

Domesticated Animals

Land Use

Multi-Ethnic Community Relations

Disasters

Linguistic Identification

Ethnosociology

Activities of the Aged

External Migration

Traditional History

History

Revolution

Instigation of War

Prophets and Ascetics

Lineages

Clans

Kinship Terminology

Smiths and Their Crafts

Material Not Relevant

Ingroup Antagonisms

Glossary

External Relations

Inheritance

Mode of Marriage

CULTURE SUMMARY: MAASAI

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

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INDEXING NOTES

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

Political Organization

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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The Maasai (Masai) are nomadic pastoralists who live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania having migrated to this region sometime before 1800. They are a federation of tribal sections. In the 1880s, they were colonized and mostly pacified by the British and Germans. In Kenya colonial farmers and ranchers settled on their land. Two treaties confined them to their present-day reserve. In the 1970s the Tanzanian government has tried to settle the Maasai into villages and involve them in the market economy.

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