Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa : Gender, Culture, and Myth of Patriarchal Pastoralist

List of Maps, Figures & Photos vii Acknowledgments viii List of Contributors x Map xiii Introduction Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist 1(28) Dorothy L. Hodgson I MAKING CULTURE Gender & Material Culture in West Pokot, Kenya 29(14) Barbara Bianco Gender, Ethnicity & Social Aesthetics in Maasai & Okiek Beadwork 43(29) Corinne Kratz Donna Pido Women & Men of the Khoekhoen of Southern Africa 72(25) Andrew B. Smith Lita Webley II DOMAINS OF POWER Pastoralism, Patriarchy & History among Maasai in Tanganyika 1890-1940 97(24) Dorothy L. Hodgson Women's Roles in Peacemaking in Somali Society 121(21) Asha Hagi Elmi Dekha Ibrahim Janice Jenner Gender, Ethnographic Myths & Community-Based Conservation in a Former Namibian `Homeland' 142(23) Sian Sullivan III SOCIAL RELATIONS The Fertility of Houses & Herds 165(21) Producing Kinship & Gender among Turkana Pastoralists Vigdis Broch-Due Exalted Mothers 186(21) Gender, Aging & Post-childbearing Experience in a Tuareg Community Susan Rasmussen IV NEGOTIATING DEVELOPMENT & MODERNITY Milk Selling among Fulani Women in Northern Burkina Faso 207(20) Solveig Buhl Katherine Homewood Development Ideologies & Local Knowledge among Samburu Women in Northern Kenya 227(22) Bilinda Straight Pastoral Disruption & Cultural Continuity in a Pastoral Town 249(16) Mario I. Aguilar Index 265