Time, space, and the unknown: Maasai configurations of power and providence
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| adam_text | TIME, SPACE, AND
THE UNKNOWN
Maasai configurations of
power and providence
Paul Spencer
13 Routledge
a^k Taylor amp; Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
CONTENTS
List of illustrations x
Preface xii
Note on orthography xv
1 Introduction 1
PART I
The boundaries of time, space, and certainty 13
2 The age system, and the social construction of time
and experience 15
The two arenas and the gerontocratic premise 15
The manyata system and the integrity ofmoranhood 18
Jostling on the age grade ladder 23
Homo Ascendens and Homo Hierarchicus 29
The integrity of elderhood and the avoidance of daughters 32
The ascent of women from pawns to custodians 35
Conclusion: the process of ageing and the social construction of time 31
3 Power and the social construction o f space 43
The ordering of domestic space and the flux of gender relations 43
Moranhood and the hazards of the bush 50
Tribal sections and the boundaries of trust 55
The ritualization of behaviour and the uncertain unity of all Maasai 58
Wakuafi or Iloikop? 62
Conclusion: performance and the arena of space 63
vn
CONTENTS
4 Providence and the cosmology of misfortune 67
Mystical forces and the propitious role of ritual 68
Prayer, sacrifice, and the cosmic manifestations of God 11
Transgressions of the moral order and the power of the curse 15
The limits of reasonableness 11
The experience of misfortune in childhood 18
Diverging modeb of accountability among the Samburu and Maasai 81
The ambivalence of ritual knowledge among the Samburu and Maasai 83
Guardian spirits and the Samburu 85
Castigation, abandonment, and parental images of God 88
Conclusion: the benign God and the spectre of misfortune 91
5 The Loonkidongi diviners and Prophets 98
The practice of divination 98
The reputation of the Loonkidongi 102
Marriage and the two communities 104
The Prophet and his domain 106
Variation in Loonkidongi influence 112
Loonkidongi succession as the arena of a contemporary myth 115
Conclusion: the Prophet, his possessions, and the legitimacy of sorcery 119
6 Loonkidongi oracles and cyclical reckoning among
the Maasai 124
The oracular number cycle 126
Maasai time cycles 134
Conclusion: simulating the pattern of affliction 142
PART II
Diverging models in space and variation over time 145
7 The Purko Maasai in 1977: a northern model 147
The role of boys in inaugurating a new age-set 141
The segregation of the manyata from the domestic domain 150
Eunoto 156
The transition to elderhood and relations through food 161
Queuing and the sequence of ritual precedence among kin 169
Conclusion: the characteristics of the northern model 115
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CONTENTS
8 The Kisonko Maasai of Loitokitok in 1977:
a southern model 180
Moranhood and manyata organization in Loitokitok 181
The change-over as a critical event 186
The transition to elderhood 188
The rivalry between firestick alliances in elderhood 190
The alternation of power and the involvement of the Prophet 194
Conclusion: the northern and southern models of constraint 191
9 A pre-colonial mode l and the hub o f power 205
The colonial intervention by British and German administrations 205
Marker s model of moranhood around 1900 206
Merker s model of elderhood around 1900 211
A critique of Merker s model of moranhood 212
The Prophet and the dynamics of power 216
Conclusion: colonial intervention and the transformation of the
age system 218
Appendix: loose ends in Maasai history 224
10 Alternative models o f social control among
the Arusha Maasai 234
The classification of disputes among the Arusha 235
Confrontation and dispute referral 238
The competition for scarce resources and the integrity of age systems 242
Conclusion: self-interest and social control 244
11 Conclusion: the interplay of power and providence,
and the theory of dilemmas 248
Transactional approaches and the shifting saddle-point 248
Asymmetrical competition and the Cat-and-Mouse dilemma 250
Confrontation and the Hobbesian dilemma 254
Confidence and the dilemmas of altruism 251
The interplay of dilemmas 262
The Pareto cycle and the spiral of ageing 264
Conclusion: Providence and the dynamics of the Maasai age system 267
References 272
Subject index 279
Name index 286
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