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East Africa affects the imagination like few other places on earth.
Just north of the Equator, where the Great Rift Valley provides some of the most spectacular scenery in Kenya, lies Samburuland. Isolated and inhospitable, subject to a fierce climate, it is home to a race of proud, tough, semi-nomadic pastoralists. The Samburu, akin to the more visible and better-known Maasai to the south, are traditionalists in a world of change. The rule of the elders, the guidance of an astrologer/sage, the force of custom and--as a last resort--the power of a curse maintain law and order within the tribe.
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Just north of the equator, where the Great Rift Valley provides some of the most spectacular scenery in Kenya, lies an inhospitable land that is home to the proud, semi–nomadic Samburu tribe. Their culture revolves around cattle, which give a man status in the community and allow him to procure a wife from a good family. Like their more famous relatives, the Maasai, the Samburu have withstood efforts to impose an alien culture upon them and continue to live as they always have done. When Samburu was first published over a decade ago, Wilfred Thesiger wrote: “No other book about the Samburu…combines meticulous…accounts of fascinating customs and ceremonies with such exceptional illustrations.” Nigel Pavitt’s books include Turkana, Kenya: The First Explorers, and Africa’s Great Rift Valley.
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Akin to the renowned Masai of Kenya, the Samburu are still living a primitive life steeped deep in tradition. But according to Pavitt, they are on the brink of much change, as the children attend school, as the adolescents grow impatient with some of the more restrictive traditions, and as the elders, keepers of the tradition, die. This book could be the last detailed log of the last of the unchanged tribes of Kenya. And detailed it is. Chapters dealing with the family, initiation (circumcision), Lmuget ceremonies (changes in status), Moranhood (warrior status), girls and marriage, and the elders are thorough and engrossing. Pavitt has the trust and friendship of many Samburu, which has allowed him unusual photographic access to their customs and ceremonies. The photographs are outstanding technically, with brilliant color. The many facial close-ups are engaging. Recommended for anthropology, photography, and Africa collections.
- Nancy Moeckel, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, Ohio
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0805019928
- ISBN 13 9780805019926
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages223
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