The Maasai Language
Author: David ole Munke
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9789966261403
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Maasai Language & Culture
Author: Frans Mol
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Maasai, basically a cattle-keeping people, live in East Africa on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border. . . . [Their] language and culture [are] under great stress and pressure from present-day ideas of modern life. . . . Maasai children learn their language from their mothers, but most of these children when they go to school will never learn to read or write in their mother tongue. None of them will ever know the basics of the grammar of their own language. This book tries to preserve as much as possible of Maa, the language, and Olmaa, the culture. It may best be described as a depository of linguistic and cultural data of the Maasai." -- Introduction, p. iii.
The Masai
Author: A. C. Hollis
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9789354036750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
The Masai Language; Grammatical Notes Together with a Vocabulary
Author: Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Published: 2018-11-08
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780344917301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Being Maasai
Author: Thomas T. Spear
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780852552155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the people who identify themselves as Maasai, or who speak the Maa language, are not pastoralist at all, but framers and hunters. Over time many people have 'become' something else, adn what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is still changing today. This collection by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists examines how Maasai identity has been created, evoked, contested and transformed. North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota; Kenya: EAEP
Aspects of the Theory of Morphology
Author: Igor Mel'cuk
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-08-22
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 3110199866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is dedicated to linguistic morphology and it contains a sketch of a complete morphological theory, centered around a discussion of fundamental concepts such as morph vs. morpheme, inflectional category, voice, grammatical case, agreement vs. government, suppletion, relationships between linguistic signs, etc.: the hottest issues in modern linguistics! The book introduces rigorous and clear concepts necessary to describe morphological phenomena of natural languages. Among other things, it offers logical calculi of possible grammemes in a given category. The presentation is developed in a typological perspective, so that linguistic data from a large variety of languages are described and analyzed (about 100 typologically very different languages). The main method is deductive: the concepts proposed in Aspects of the Theory of Morphology are based on a small set of indefinibilia and each concept is defined in terms of these indefinibilia and/or other concepts defined previously; as a result, logical calculi can be constructed (similar to Mendeleev's Periodical Table of Elements in chemistry). Then the concept is applied to the actual linguistic data to demonstrate its validity and advantages. Thus, Aspects of the Theory of Morphology combines metalinguistic endeavor (a system of concepts for morphology) with typological and descriptive orientation. It reaches out to all students of language, including the border fields and applications.
The Masai of Africa
Author: Lisa McQuail
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780822548553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the customs, housing, and food of the Masai; how they live on a daily basis; and how they have dealt with modern forces, such as wildlife preserves, tourism, and money.
Masai and I
Author: Virginia Kroll
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780140548334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt school one day, Linda learns about East Africa and the Masai tribe and in so many ways she begins to compare their way of life to hers in the city.
Only the Mountains Do Not Move
Author: Jan Reynolds
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600608445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A photographic essay about the Maasai people in Kenya, traditionally nomadic herders, exploring the contemporary challenges they face focusing on environmental changes such as the overgrazing of land and the threat of wildlife extinction and how the Maasai are adapting their agricultural practices and lifestyle while preserving their culture"--Provided by publisher. Includes Maasai proverbs. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
The White Masai
Author: Corinne Hofmann
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2007-10-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0061131539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls in love with an African warrior while on holiday in Kenya. After overcoming severe obstacles, she moves into a tiny hut with him and his mother, and spends four years in his Kenyan village. Slowly but surely, the dream starts to crumble, and she hatches a plan to return home with her daughter, a baby born of the seemingly indestructible love between a white European woman and a Masai. Compulsively readable, The White Masai is at once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn, and a fine piece of meticulously observed social anthropology.
