Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

"Once Intrepid Warriors advances a brilliantly persuasive critique of development among the Maasai.... This historical ethnography is a tour de force, counter-balancing the analysis of cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation over the longue duree with intimate and memorable portraits of representative individuals." --Richard Werbner

"In a series of chapters on the interrelationships of ethnicity, gender, and 'modernity,' Hodgson concludes that it is not the Maasai who have remained static, but rather the external images of them." --Choice

"... meticulous and well-documented... a valuable resource...." --Africa

Introduction: Seeing Maasai

1. Gender, Generation, and Ethnicity: Being Maasai Men and Women

Maasai Portrait 1: Koko

2. Modernist Orders: Colonialism and the Production of Marginality

Maasai Portrait 2: Wanga

3. Why Are You in Such a Hurry? Development and Decolonization

Maasai Portrait 3: Thomas

4. Politics of the Postcolonial Periphery: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship

Maasai Portrait 4: Edward Moringe Sokoine

5. Poverty and Progress: Gender, Ethnicity, and Pastoralist Development

Maasai Portrait 5: Mary

6. The Gendered Contradictions of Modernity and Marginality

Conclusion: Maasai Pasts, Maasai Futures

Epilogue: The Last of the Maasai?