ANT 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Beadwork, Sexual Jealousy, Dowry
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The maasai: location, kenya and northern tanzania, speak various languages, famous as warrior and farmers cattle wrestlers, population is estimates 1. 2million, society in general, male age set groups, tourism, pastoralists with some cultivation. Living arrangements; rotates homes to give them enough attention: dowry. They have just been circumcised: symbol of marriage. Color blue: cattle are exchanged, music and arts, well known as beadwork. Women spend hours perfecting their craft: music. Competitions: age- sets, boys born 5 to 10 years. Creates close bonds: female identify with the age set of their boyfriend and have sexual access to them, ceremonies, male. Cutting of hair 6 months and giving name. 5-10 years enter boyhood learn to take care of cattle. 10 years- preparing for circumcision assigned to age set. Brief period following circumcision children are born. Death: circumcision, both male and females are circumcised, passage from childhood toward adulthood, male. At the onset of puberty and conducted in public.
