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From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change In Kenya
Author(s): Lee Cronk (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 19 Aug. 2019
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 190 pages
- ISBN-10: 0367315858
- ISBN-13: 9780367315856
Book Description
Can one change one’s ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930s, the Mukogodo were Cushitic-speaking foragers (hunters, gatherers, and beekeepers). However, changes brought on by British colonial policies led them
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About the Author
Lee Cronk is associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of That Complex Whole (Westview Press, 1999).
