Klappentext: "The Maasai are an
African tribe whose adherence to cultural traditions is legendary. Most still live in a
five-thousand-square-mile tribal reserve of empty bush that stretches south of Nairobi all the way to
Tanzania. When Elizabeth Gilbert initially came into contact with the Maasai over ten years ago, their
images were everywhere in Africa. Pictures of warriors were printed on postcards, T-shirts, safari
advertisements, and hotel logos, but in reality their traditional life was disappearing. So Elizabeth set
out on a four-year journey to photograph what was left of traditional Maasailand. Broken Spears is
the stunning result of that remarkable journey. Over 120 images capture the rituals, secret ceremonies,
landscapes, rites of passage, and warrior portraits of Maasailand, documenting the life of this
extraordinary tribe in the most comprehensive collection of photographs ever assembled. Elizabeth's
accompanying text tells the story of the early colonial history and the mingled destinies of the Maasai and
the British, the forced settlement onto reserves, and the court case to regain their ancestral territory.
Included are archival photographs of the Maasai from the nineteenth century and reproductions of historic
photographs, documents, and land treaties. Also in this book are photographs of centuries-old Maasai
ceremonies, including male circumcisions, a ceremony called 'The Horn of the Ox', where young boys attempt
to grab an ox by its horns to prove their manhood; a female circumcision; a traditional Maasai wedding; the
Eunoto ceremony, where warriors are officially retired; panoramic shots of the Serengeti; and the most
dangerous of all Maasai rituals, a lion hunt. A moving photographic journey into the vanishing culture of
the Maasai warriors of Kenya and Tanzania, Broken Spears is a haunting testament to a rapidly
disappearing way of life."
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Cradle of Mankind
von Mohamed Amin (Fotos) & Brian Tetley (Text), Vorwort von Richard Leakey
Synopsis: "Now famous throughout the
world as the earliest known site of modern man's existence, Lake Turkana in Kenya's far north has come to be
known as The Cradle of Mankind. It is here that famous palaeoanthropologist Richard Leakey has
discovered 1000 square miles of fossil-rich bearings that have provided the world with its most significant
evidence of mankind's origins. Here, too, are six tribes of hunters and nomads who live today much as our
forebears did and who come as near to untouched primitive life as any peoples in the world. Their ways will
undoubtedly change in the vanguard of Kenya's centralising forces. For twelve years Mohamed Amin recorded
their vanishing cultures and customs with authenticity and skill, capturing the rich, colourful mixture of
unspoiled life in and around Lake Turkana. The text describes the history of the lake, its wildlife, the
work on the fossil beds at Koobi Fora, and the traditions of the tribes now disappearing under the onslaught
of modernisation. Cradle of Mankind makes an enduring contribution to the illustrated history of
the human race."
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Cradle of Mankind (Reissue)
von Mohamed Amin (Fotos) & Brian Tetley (Text), Vorwort von Richard Leakey
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The Last of the Maasai
von Mohamed Amin (Fotos), Duncan Willetts (Fotos) & John Eames (Text), Vorwort von Elspeth Huxley
Gebundene Ausgabe, 192 Seiten, 122
Farbfotos, 1 Farbkarte
Design & Produktion von Camerapix Publishers
International (Kenia)
Westlands Sundries (Kenia), 1987
Klappentext: "To nineteenth-century
Europeans, they were the 'noblest savages', an elite corps of painted and feathered warriors, strangely
aristocratic in their disdain of other people's civilisations. For the Maasai, no advance during the last
100 years has been of any great interest or advantage: not peace for war; money for cattle; nor cities and
settlement for the plains and open boundaries of their land across much of southern Kenya and northern
Tanzania. This isolation, their land, their traditional codes and values, have all been defended in a long,
mostly passive war of resistance carried out by a society structured as a standing army. But it's all over,
almost. In Kenya, in the late 1980s, the legions of warrior moran are obsolete; the old tribal
conflicts no longer acceptable in the new nation state - one of the most advanced and ambitious in Black
Africa. In the national economy no land can be left fallow and unproductive and the Maasai cattle are
counted in the national herd. Change has not been forced on the Maasai. But they are on the final retreat to
the point of individual choice: either across the line of time and cultural advance or all the way back to
the reservations - to whatever land is left to them. In this superb, full-colour portfolio photographers
Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts have produced a comprehensive pictorial record, and John Eames the
narrative background to these remarkable people: The Last of the Maasai."
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The Last of the Maasai (2004 Edition)
von Mohamed Amin (Fotos), Duncan Willetts (Fotos) & John Eames (Text), Vorwort von Elspeth Huxley
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Synopsis: "The Nuba are an ancient
people who have long lived in some of the most remote areas of the Sudan, the foothills of the Nuba
mountains in the centre of the country. Leni Riefenstahl was the first white woman to obtain permission from
the Sudanese government to travel into the area and study the Nuba. Between 1962 and 1969 she lived in the
valleys of Central Sudan, gaining the trust and friendship of many of the Nuba and taking unique photographs
which now constitute a permanent record of the Nuba way of life. The images in The Last of the Nuba,
as well as being superb examples of Riefenstahl's artistry as a photographer, are also of outstanding
ethnographic value since the ways of the Nuba and their former tribal structure have gradually been yielding
to the inroads made by modern civilization and by the political upheavals in the region."
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Synopsis: "The pictures of this book
are an evidence of the passion for Africa. In his book Green Hills of
Africa Ernest Hemingway wrote, »All I wanted now, was to get back to Africa. I had not left it yet, but
when I awake at night I was lying and listening full of homesick for it.« Therefore, these pictures may be
the last attempt to catch something of Africa's soul before it will lose its innocence to the technical
age."
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Maasai
von Tepilit Ole Saitoti (Text) & Carol Beckwith (Fotos)
Gebundene Ausgabe, 276 Seiten, 241
Farbfotos, 40 Schwarzweißillustrationen, 3 Karten Harry
N. Abrams (USA), September 1980, ISBN 0-8109-1303-8
Synopsis: "Named for the language
they speak - Maa, a distinct but unwritten African tongue - the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania still live much
as they did thousands of years ago, herding cattle, sheep, and goats and existing in harmony with their
peaceful environment in and around the Great Rift Valley. Tall, proud, aristocratic in bearing and manner,
these handsome people have made their way into the twentieth century with their ancient customs and the
structure of their society preserved to an unusual extent. For the first time ever, this book - a kind of
autobiography, since it is written by a Maasai - documents their living story. It recounts the ancient
legends, reveals the songs and prayers, and vividly describes the stages of life for a Maasai: childhood,
initiation, warrior rank, and finally elderhood. Each chapter of the vigorous and intimate text is
illustrated with line drawings and stunning color photographs. Here are the feasts and ceremonies of the
tribe; the daily work of maintaining the herds, beading skirts, and building huts and kraals; the
warriors' games, dances, and flirtations; the elders' quiet moments of contemplation. Seldom has a people
been more completely and sympathetically portrayed."
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Maasai (Reprint)
von Tepilit Ole Saitoti (Text) & Carol Beckwith (Fotos)
Gebundene Ausgabe, Nachdruck, 276 Seiten,
241 Farbfotos, 40 Schwarzweißillustrationen, 3 Karten Abradale Press (USA),
November 1990, ISBN 0-8109-8099-1
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