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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Maasai"”.
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Maasai Girls Access to Secondary Education in Ngorongoro District
This study focused on factors affecting Maasai girls access to secondary education in Ngorongoro District. It was guided by five objectives that focused on enrolment status of girls; retention and completion rate; passing rates for Form IV examinations, selection to form V and other tertiary …
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Making the Maasai Schoolgirl: Developing Modernities on the Margins
… study of identity formations among Maasai schoolgirls in southern Kenya, then, is designed to shed some new theoretical light on life as a target of these goals. In this dissertation, I consider the lived experience of development in the form of formal schooling from the subjective …
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Ilng'wesi Maasai: Livelihoods and Moral Identity in Northern Laikipia, Kenya
… and ethnographic study of the Ilng’wesi Maasai. Ilng’wesi today self-identify as pastoralists. They once formed part of the Ilaikipiak alliance in the mid-nineteenth century, before being defeated by another Maasai section and fleeing to the forests of Mt Kenya, where they spent half a …
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Maasai oxen, agriculture and land use change in Monduli District, Tanzania
… the sustainability of the use of oxen by the Maasai and Arusha (WaArusha) people, in Monduli District, Tanzania. Traditionally pastoralists, the Maasai are undergoing a social and agricultural transformation process of sedentarization in this region. The villages included in the case study …
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The Small Animals of Maasai Settlements: Ethnoarchaeological Investigations of the Commensalism Model
… focusing on seasonally occupied settlements of Maasai pastoralists in East Africa. Methods from ecology, ethnography, and archaeology were used to document the impact of Maasai settlements on associated communities of small rodents and shrews: micromammals), to measure the intensity of human …
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Mobile Phones, Social Relations, and the Gatekeepers to Women's Empowerment in Maasai Households
… gender-based inequalities in agro-pastoralist Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. Grounded in perspectives from scholarship on women's empowerment and rural liveihoods, I ask: (1) how do women access and use phones?; and (2) how are women's phone uses embedded in existing social relations? …
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Access Retention and Performance among Maasai primary School Boys and Girls in Monduli District
… study on “Access Retention and Performance among Maasai primary school boys and girls:” This study was conducted in Monduli, in three ecological areas. The objective of the study was to analyse the patterns and causes of access, retention and performances among primary schools boys and girls. The …
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Settlement patterns and their potential implications for livelihoods among Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania
… to quantify settlement patterns in four Maasai villages in northern Tanzania, exploring the environmental and infrastructure correlates of settlement locations. A subset of these geographic variables is used with social survey data for 111 Maasai households in the study site to test the …
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Human-wildlife conflict and mobile phone use among Maasai pastoralists near Tarangire National Park, northern Tanzania
… the impact of mobile phone technology on four Maasai communities near Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania. I asked the questions: (1) How do phones affect human-wildlife interactions?; and (2) What are the effects of mobile phone use on measures of human-wildlife conflict (HWC)? This …
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When Cultures Clash: The Challenges and Prospects of Pastoralist Human Resource Development Through Secondary Education in Longido District, Tanzania
… findings indicate that, formal education in Maasai communities is received at the low rate due to the mismatch between what is offered in school and what are the actual needs of the Maasai communities. Because of this mismatch, most of Maasai children drop out of school. Moreover, findings …
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Colonial and Post-colonial Rangeland Enclosures amid Climate Uncertainty: The Case of Maasai Pastoralists of Kajiado County, Kenya
… injustices of the forceful dispossession of Maasai pastoralists by the British colonial authority. The ongoing enclosure of common resources by both state and private capital for economic gain has left the herder community exposed to the adverse effects of climate change. The purpose of this …
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Mediating Maendeleo: Examining the Nexus Between Geothermal Extraction, Wildlife Conservation and Community Well-being in Olkaria-Suswa, Southern Kenya
… institutions and societal structures of the Maasai communities that have been in dynamic interaction with hegemonic forms of state-building during the colonial and post-colonial periods in Kenya. The Maasai's fraught interaction with and cautious response to change, often portrayed and …
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Mobilizing Women to Form Income Generating Activities: A Case Study of Beekeeping Project In Urkeeswa Village At Monduli District
Large percent of Monduli habitats are the Maasai. This is a purely patrilineal tribe which hold tightly their culture and way of life. Knowing the fact that Maasai culture is in part discriminating women rights, hinder them on access to information, and the likes; The Ministry of Community …
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MOBILIZING WOMEN TO FORM INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES: A CASE STUDY OF BEEKEEPING PROJECT IN URKEESWA VILLAGE AT MONDULI DISTRICT
Large percent of Monduli habitats are the Maasai. This is a purely patrilineal tribe which hold tightly their culture and way of life. Knowing the fact that Maasai culture is in part discriminating women rights, hinder them on access to information, and the likes; The Ministry of Community …
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Faith, gender and peacebuilding: The roles of women of faith in peacebuilding in the Conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of south-western Kenya.
… in the conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of South-western Kenya. While religion has at times legitimated women’s exclusion and predominantly created male religious elite figures in peacebuilding, I demonstrate how women of faith deploy religious resources for peace. Acting within …
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Factors Hindering Parents’ Participation in School Activities in Tanzania: A Case of Arusha District
… showed that the socio-economic status of Maasai, inhibiting cultures against education, hindered parents to fully participate in education activities in Arusha district. The findings furthermore indicated that educating the parents, formulation of parent-teacher association, initiating …
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Forensic identification of six of Tanzanian populations using the extended haplotype markers
… Congo (Kuria and Sukuma), Nilo Saharan (Luo and Maasai) and Afro Asiatic (Iraqw and Alagwa).
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