Moving the Maasai : A Colonial Misadventure - L. Hughes

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Moving the Maasai

A Colonial Misadventure

By: L. Hughes

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Hardcover | 10 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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In Moving the Maasai Lotte Hughes tells the scandalous story of how the Maasai people of Kenya lost the best part of their land to the British in the 1900s. Drawing upon unique oral testimony and extensive archival research, she describes the many intrigues surrounding two enforced moves that cleared the highlands for European settlers, and a 1913 lawsuit in which the Maasai attempted to reclaim their former territory, and explains why recent events have brought the story full circle.

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'[A] fascinating account of imperial land theft.' - Tribune

'Hughes' book tells the story of the most significant event in 20th-century Masai history: the forcible dispossession of Masai territories by the colonial government to make way for British settlement. Hughes has meticulously pieced together an account of the evictions and the court cases from a range of official and unofficial sources. Beyond the traditional archival records she has used, she also interviewed Masai survivors of the second move, and managed to retrieve some of the correspondence of Norman Leys, a colonial doctor in colonial Kenya who harshly criticised the Masai moves.' - The Sunday Times South Africa

'Moving the Maasai is a compelling analysis of the history and legacies of the Maasai moves of 1904 and 1911 and the ensuing 1913 court case in Kenya...She reveals the people, processes, principles, and power behind the production of these 'facts,' providing an absorbing study of history-in-the-making.' - Dorothy L Hodgson, African Affairs, Vol 107, No 427, April 2008

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Abbreviations and Style	p. ix
Glossary of Maasai Words	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Preface	p. xiv
Maps	p. xvii
The Moves and What Led Up to Them
Introduction	p. 3
Outlining the story	p. 5
Approach and timescale	p. 7
Sources: oral	p. 9
Sources: written	p. 11
Maasai social system	p. 13
The place of Maasai in the early 'colonial' state	p. 15
Critics of empire: Leys and McGregor Ross	p. 17
Parsaloi Ole Gilisho	p. 21
The Moves	p. 23
Land laws and early settlement	p. 25
The options: to mix or isolate	p. 28
Eliot oversteps the mark	p. 30
The first move	p. 33
The Laikipia experience	p. 36
Girouard engineers the second move	p. 38
Key meetings	p. 42
The Leys campaign	p. 45
Death on the Mau?	p. 50
In Search of the Truth	p. 56
Maasai accounts	p. 58
Suspension of the move	p. 60
Surveys of the reserve	p. 63
The Cole case	p. 67
Build-up to the Maasai Case	p. 71
Obstruction of the lawsuit	p. 76
Making sense of Leys and his circle	p. 77
Some like to party	p. 84
The Aftermath
The Court Case	p. 89
The 1913 case	p. 92
Critiques of the case	p. 100
The Ecological Impacts	p. 105
Some analytical challenges	p. 107
'Clean' and 'dirty'	p. 108
Comparing the two habitats	p. 110
The Maasai version of events	p. 115
Official views and interventions	p. 118
Veterinary support	p. 120
Human sickness	p. 126
Lewis's study of ticks	p. 127
Losses by other sections	p. 130
Interpretations
Blood Oaths, Boundaries and Brothers	p. 135
Blood-brotherhood in the literature	p. 142
Treaty making	p. 146
What can it mean?	p. 149
Social metaphors	p. 151
Highland Games: Settlers and Their Farm Workers	p. 152
Retaking the highlands	p. 157
The returnees	p. 160
Colvile's escapades	p. 163
The experience of other employees	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 171
Repercussions	p. 174
Resistance and power	p. 176
Blood-brothers and reversed exodus	p. 177
The legal situation today	p. 178
List of interviewees	p. 183
Chronology of events 1895-1918	p. 186
Notes	p. 188
Bibliography	p. 216
Index	p. 226
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A Colonial Misadventure

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