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YOUTH AND EXPERIENCES OF AGEING AMONG MAA - PAU...

The Maa of East Africa are a cluster of related pastoral peoples who share a social
organization based on age. This groups men into life-long cohorts from their initiation in
youth  regardless of family wealth. Historically  this type of pre-market society has been
described in every continent  but East Africa provides the principal surviving region of
age-based societies  among whom the Maasai are the best known. In this volume  comparison
between three branches of Maa highlights different aspects of their society: the dynamics of
power with age and gender among the Maasai  of ritual performance and belief among the Samburu
and of historical change among the Chamus.Here it is argued that understanding another culture
can only be approached through models derived in the first instance from the representations
conveyed by members of that culture. The social anthropologist may then elaborate these images
through the choice of analytical parallels  even extending to other disciplines and personal
experience. Each chapter in this volume views Maa institutions through a different lens 
exploring models relevant to a comprehensive analysis of their social life.

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