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Masai Mara (8): Maasai Dances (Women)

May 23, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

It is interesting to note that with the women’s dancing, there is much more gentleness and fluidity, so once more those preconceptions sneak in and apparently are part of every culture. The women line up and begin singing soft, sort of squeaky tunes (no one the same, I gather) and the cacophony is pretty amazing. …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Culture, Kenya - Maasai, Kenya - People

Masai Mara (7): Maasai Dances (Men)

May 23, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

As we move on into the relations between the men and the women of the manyatta, perhaps this from a recent books I read will help: “As Maasai society is polygamous, an elder can take as many wives as he can afford and father as many children as possible. Conventionally, a Maasai man of the …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Culture, Kenya - Maasai, Kenya - People

Masai Mara (6): Maasai Fire w/ Sticks

May 23, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

One of our most intriguing findings, in visiting the Maasai and getting to know them through Tomas, is just how little they depend on things that are purchased. They do all their own medicine, as we all know, and hearing Tomas describe some of the ways they use herbs and leaves and bark and such …

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The Western Kenya Safari (5): Farewell to Kisii and Hello to the Maasai Countryside

May 4, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

We woke early to begin the long journey to Nairobi, going a different route than when we came to Kisii. For the first drive, we came via Lake Naivasha, using much the same route we had used on some of our previous safaris, to Lake Nakuru and Hell’s Gate, and taking us over the mountains …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Maasai, Lake-Victoria

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