Here’s the state of the majority of our library related to the Maasai and Samburu. Maa/Sampurr linguistics have their own bibliography, as does our materials on ethnography and linguistics related to other Kenyan groups and languages (Swahili, Turkana, Kikuyu, Kalenjin).
There are a few items which we lack (either copies are unavailable or not yet afforded); those are indicated by an * asterisk. Resources on the cultural practices of circumcision and FGM have not been included for reasons of space.
Being Maasai
Allegretti, Antonia. “The Religious (and Political) Materiality of Development among Christian Maasai in Contemporary Tanzania.” Chapter 11 in Development in East Africa, edited by Piotr Cichocki and Maciej Ząbek, 325–355. Vol. 3. in Cultural Shift in East Africa: Developments, Biographies, (Im)materialities. Warsaw: Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 2018.
Anderson, David M. and Douglas H. Johnson. “Diviners, Seers and Prophets in Eastern Africa.” Africa 61/3 (1991): 293–399.
Archambault, Caroline A. “Pain with Punishment and the Negotiation of Childhood: An Ethnographic Analysis of Children’s Rights Processes in Maasailand.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 79/2 (2009): 282-302
Archambault, Caroline S. “‘The pen is the spear of today’: (re)producing gender in the Maasai schooling setting.” Gender and Education 29/6 (2017): 731–747.
Archambault, Caroline A. “Re-creating the commons and re-configuring Maasai women’s roles on the rangelands in the face of fragmentation.” International Journal of the Commons10/2 (2016): 728–746.
Århem, Kaj. “Maasai Food Symbolism: The Cultural Connotations of Milk, Meat, and Blood in the Pastoral Maasai Diet.” Anthropos 84/1–3 (1989): 1–23.
Aktipis, Athena, Rolando de Aguiar, Anna Flaherty, Padmini Iyer, Dennis Sonkoi, and Lee Cronk. “Cooperation in an Uncertain World: For the Maasai of East Africa, Need-Based Transfers Outperform Account-Keeping in Volatile Environments.” Human Ecology 44/3 (2016): 353–364.
Aktipis, Athena C., Lee Cronk, and Rolando de Aguiar. “Risk-Pooling and Herd Survival: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Gift-Giving System.” Human Ecology 39/2 (2011): 131–140.
Allegretti, Antonia. “The Religious (and Political) Materiality of Development among Christian Maasai in Contemporary Tanzania.” Chapter 11 in Development in East Africa, Cultural Shift in East Africa: Developments, Biographies, (Im)materialities, vol. 3, edited by Piotr Cichocki and Maciej Ząbek, 325–355. Warsaw: Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 2018.
Bagge, S. “The Circumcision Ceremony Among the Naivasha Masai.” The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 34 (1904): 167–169.
Barron, Joshua Robert. “Conversion or Proselytization? Being Maasai, Becoming Christian.” Global Missiology 18/2 (2021): 12 pages.
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Barron, Joshua Robert. “Lessons from Scripture for Maasai Christianity, Lessons from Maasai Culture for the Global Church.” Priscilla Papers 33/2 (2019): 17–23.
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Barron, Joshua Robert. “My God is enkAi: a reflection of vernacular theology.” Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion 2/1 (2021): 1–20.
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* Benson, Stanley. “A Study of the Religious Beliefs and Practices of the Maasai Tribe and the Implications on the Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.” ThM thesis, Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary, 1974.
Benson, Stanley. “Christian Communication Among The Masai.” Africa Theological Journal 4 (1971): 68–75.
* Benson, Stanley. “The Conquering Sacrament: Baptism and Demon Possession Among the Maasai of Tanzania.” Africa Theological Journal 2 (1980): 52-61.
Berntsen, John L. “The Enemy Is Us: Eponymy in the Historiography of the Maasai.” History in Africa 7 (1980): 1–21.
Berntsen, John L. “The Maasai and Their Neighbors: Variables of Interaction.” African Economic History 2 (1976): 1–11.
Bingham, Kelly Suzanne. “Helplessness to Hope: Cultural Transformations for the Maasai Girl-Child.” DEd dissertation. Liberty University, 2011.
Bonini, Nathalie. “The pencil and the shepherd’s crook: Ethnography of Maasai education.” Ethnography and Education 1/3 (2006): 379–382.
Bowen, John P. “The Making of a Reflective Practitioner of Mission: What Shaped the Author of Christianity Rediscovered.” Mission Studies 30/1 (2013): 86–104.
Bowen, John P. “‘What Happened Next?’ Vincent Donovan, Thirty-five Years On.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 33/2 (2009): 79–82.
Brown, David Maughan. “The Noble Savage in Anglo-Saxon Colonial Ideology, 1950-1980: ‘Masai’ and ‘Bushmen’ in Popular Fiction.” English in Africa 10/2 (1983): 55–77.
Burton, Michael and Lorraine Kirk. “Sex Differences in Maasai Cognition of Personality and Social Identity.” American Anthropologist. New Series 81/4 (1979): 841–873.
Casucci, Brad A. “A Cold Wind: Local Maasai Perceptions of the Common Health Landscape in Narok South.” PhD Dissertation. Case Western University, 2015.
Chachage, S. L. Chachage. “Citizenship and Partitioned People in East Africa: The Case of the Wamaasai.” Africa Development / Afrique et Développement 28/1–2 (2003): 53–96.
Chieni, Telelia and Paul Spencer. “The World of Telelia: Reflections of a Maasai Woman in Matapato.” Chapter 8 in Being Maasai, edited by Thomas Spear and Richard Waller, 157–173. Eastern African Studies. Oxford: James Currey, 1993.
Coast, Ernestina. Maasai demography. PhD Dissertation. University of London, 2001.
Coast, Ernestina. “Maasai Marriage: A comparative study of Kenya and Tanzania.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 37/3 (2006): 399–419.
Coast, Ernestina. “Maasai Socioeconomic Conditions: A Cross-Border Comparison.” Human Ecology 30/1 (2002): 79–105.
Cronk, Lee. From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya. Case Studies in Anthropology. Edited by Edward F. Fischer. New York: Routledge, 2018. (First published: Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2004.)
Cronk, Lee. “From True Dorobo to Mukogodo Maasai: Contested Ethnicity in Kenya.” Ethnology 41/1 (2002): 27–49.
Crum, Dan (ole Kijabe), ed. Emataranyaki Enkai: Isinkolioitin Te Nkutuk e Maa. 3rd ed. Nairobi, Kenya: Kenya Church of Christ, 2000.
Curtin, Patricia Romero. “Generations of Strangers: The Kore of Lamu.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 18/3 (1985): 455–472.
Donovan, Vincent J. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1978.
Donovan, Vincent J. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai. 2nd Edition. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1982.
Donovan, Vincent J. Christianity Rediscovered. 25th Anniversary Edition. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2003.
Ekaya, Wellington N. and Jenesio I. Kinyamario. “Woodlands and Livelihoods of African Pastoralists: The Maasai of Kajiado, Kenya.” Journal of Social Sciences 5/4 (2001): 235–238.
Elness-Hanson, Beth E. Generational Curses in the Pentateuch: An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis. Bible and Theology in Africa 24. Ed. Knut Holter. New York: Peter Lang, 2017.
Esho, Tammary, Paul Enzlin and Steven Van Wolputte. “Borders of the Present: Maasai Tradition, Modernity, and Female Identity.” Chapter 8 in Borderlands and frontiers in Africa, edited by Stephen van Wolputte, 213–233. African Studies / Afrikanische Studien.
Munster: LIT Verlag, 2013.
Fischer, Moritz. “Maasai als Ikonen: Die kulturelle Rezeption von Maasai-Identität im Westen.” Interkulturelle Theologie Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft 26/1 (2000): 49–54.
(NB: The journal Interkulturelle Theologie Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft is often abbreviated as “ZMiss.”)
Fischer, Moritz. Maasai Gestalten Christsein: Die Integrative Kraft traditionaler Religion unter dem Einfluß des Evangeliums. Missions-wissenschaftliche Forschungen, Neue Floge Band 14. Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, 2001.
Fischer, Moritz. “Milch in der Kürbiskalebasse: Vielfältig gelebter Glaube bei den Maasai in Ostafrika.” Zeitzeichen: Evangelische Kommentare zu Religion und Gessellschaft 4/6 (2003): 30–32.
Fischer, Moritz. “‘Orishi’-Maasai-Diviner and Paradigmatic Contextualisation of Christianity.” African Journal of Theology 31/2 (2008): 24–45.
Floyd, Malcolm. “Equal are the Maasai and God.” Performance Research 13/3 (2008): 77–88.
Floyd, Malcolm. “Music in Enculturation and Education: A Maasai Case Study.” PhD Dissertation. University of Central England in Birmingham, 2000.
Fratkin, Elliot. “The ‘Loibon’ as Sorcerer: A Samburu ‘Loibon’ among the Ariaal Rendille, 1973-87.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 61/3 (1991): 318–333.
Galaty, John G. “Being ‘Maasai’; Being ‘People-of-Cattle’: Ethnic Shifters in East Africa.” American Ethnologist 9/1 (1982): 1–20.
Galaty, John G. “Ceremony and Society: The Poetics of Maasai Ritual.” Man, New Series 18/2 (1983): 361–382.
Galaty, John G. “‘The Eye that Wants a Person, Where Can It Not See?’ Inclusion, Exclusion & Boundary Shifters in Maasai Identity.” Chapter 9 in Being Maasai. Edited by Thomas Spear and Richard Waller. Eastern African Studies. London: James Currey, 1993
Galaty, John G. “Grounds for Appeal: Maasai Customary Claims and Conflicts.” Anthropologica 39/1-2 (1997): 113–118.
Galaty, John G. “Ha(l)ving land in common: the subdivision of Maasai group ranches in Kenya.” Nomadic Peoples 34–35 The Pastoral Land Crisis: Tenure and Dispossession in Eastern Africa (1994): 109–122.
Galaty, John G. “Land and Livestock among Kenyan Maasai: Symbolic Perspectives on Pastoral Exchange, Social Change and Inequality.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 16/1-2 (1981): 68–88.
Galaty, John G. “‘The Land Is Yours’: Social and Economic Factors in the Privatization, Sub-Division and Sale of Maasai Ranches.” Nomadic Peoples 30 (1992): 26–40.
Galaty, John G. “The Maasai Ornithorium: Tropic Flights of Avian Imagination in Africa.” Ethnology 37/3 (1998): 227–238.
Galaty, John G. “Pollution and Pastoral Antipraxis: The Issue of Maasai Inequality.” American Ethnologist 6/4 (1979): 803–816.
Galaty, John G. “Streams of Contestation: Age and Politics in Maasai Land Claims and Conflicts.” Chapter 7 in in The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the Past & Memories of the Present, edited by Mario I. Aguilar, 211–224. Asmara, Eritrea and Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1998.
Galaty, John G. “Transgression and Transition: Confession as a sub-text in Maasai ritual.” In Beyond Textuality: Asceticism and Violence in Anthropological Interpretation, edited by Gilles Bibeau and Ellen Corin, 193–208. Approaches to Semiotics 120. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.
Gneezy, Uri, Kenneth L. Leonard, and John A. List. “Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society.” Econometrica 77/5 (2009): 1637–1664.
Goldman, Mara J. and Saningo Milliary. “From critique to engagement: re-evaluating the participatory model with Maasai in Northern Tanzania.” The Journal of Political Theology 21 (2014): 406–423.
Grabe, Shelly. “Participation: Structural and relational power and Maasai women’s political subjectivity in Tanzania.” Feminism & Psychology 25/4 (2015): 528–548.
Groop, Kim. With the Gospel to Maasailand Lutheran Mission Work among the Arusha and Maasai in Northern Tanzania 1904–1973. Turku, Finland: Åbo Akademi University Printing House, 2006.
Hamilton, Claud. “The ‘E-Unoto’ Ceremony of the Masai. ” Man 63 (1963): 107–109.
Haulle, Evaristo and Delphine Njewele. “Fertility Myth of Oldoinyo Lengai and Its Impacts to the Maasai Community of Northern Tanzania.” Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania 36/2 (2015): 21–34.
Hazel, Robert. “Symbolisme latéral et schèmes ternaires. Essai sur le système idéologique des Masai d’Afrique orientale.” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 12/1 (1978): 83–116.
Hillman, Eugene. “Inculturation & the Leaven of the Gospel.” Commonweal 18/1 (1991): 21–23.
* Hillman, Eugene. “Maasai Religion and Inculturation.” Louvain Studies17/4 (1993): 351–376
Hillman, Eugene. “The pauperization of the Maasai in Kenya.” Africa Today 41/4 (1994): 57–65.
Hillman, Eugene. Polygamy Reconsidered: African Plural Marriage and the Christian Churches. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1975
Hillman, Eugene. Toward an African Christianity: Inculturation Applied. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1993. [This specifically explores an attempt of inculturation of the Gospel in Maasai contexts.]
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist.” Introduction in Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson, 1–28. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture: From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and Spirit Possession among Maasai in Tanzania.” In Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa, edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté and Omar H. Kokole, 111–130. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Becoming Indigenous in Africa.” African Studies Review 52/3 (2009): 1–32.
Hodgson, Dorothy L. “Images & Interventions: The Problems of Pastoralist Development.” Chapter 10 in The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa, edited by David M. Anderson and Vigdis Broch-Due, 221–239. Eastern African Studies. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2000.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “‘My Daughter … Belongs to the Government Now’: Marriage, Maasai and the Tanzanian State.” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 30/1 (1996): 106–123.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “‘Once Intrepid Warriors’: Modernity and the Production of Maasai Masculinities.” Ethnology38/2 (1999): 121-150.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Pastoralism, patriarchy, and history among Maasai in Tanganyika, 1890-1940.” Chapter 4 in Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson, 97–120. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Pastoralism, Patriarchy and History: Changing Gender Relations among Maasai in Tanganyika, 1890-1940.” The Journal of African History 40/1 (1999): 41–65.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Wayward Wives, Misfit Mothers, and Disobedient Daughters: ‘Wicked’ Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa.” Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 30/1 (1996): 1–9.
Hodgson, Dorothy Louise. “Women as Children: Culture, Political Economy, and Gender Inequality among Kisongo Maasai.” Nomadic Peoples, New Series 3/2 (1999): 115–130.
Holcomb, Timothy L. “Maasai on Mission: Understanding and Developing Missiology of Rural Maasai Believers in Narok Region, Kenya.” PhD Dissertation. Columbia University, 2020.
* Hollis, A. C. The Maasai: Their Language and Folklore. London: Oxford University Press, 1904.
Hollis, A. C. “A Note on the Masai System of Relationship and Other Matters Connected Therewith.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 40 (1910): 473–482.
Hollis, Claud. “The Maasai.” Journal of the Royal African Society 42/168 (1943): 119–126.
Holter, Knut. “The Maasai and the Ancient Israelites: An Early 20th Century Interpretation of the Maasai in German East Africa.” Scriptura 116/2 (2017): 66–74.
Holter, Knut and Lemburis Justo, eds. Maasai Encounters with the Bible. Nairobi, Kenya: Acton Publishers, 2020.
contributors: J. [Jesse] N. K. Mugambi, Knut Holter, Hoyce Jacob Lyimo-Mbowe, Zephania Shila Nkesela, Suzana Sitayo, Gerrie Snyman, Lemburis Justo, and Beth E. Elness-Hanson
Homewood, Katherine, Ernestina Coast, and Michael Thompson. “In-migrants and Exclusion in East African Rangelands: Access, Tenure and Conflict.” Africa 74/4 (2004): 567–610.
Homewood, Katherine, Patti Kristjanson, and Pippa Chenevix Trench, eds. Staying Maasai? Livelihoods, Conservation and Development. Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation. Berlin: Springer, 2008. [PDF copy]
Höschele, Stefan. “Polygamy among the Tanzanian Maasai and the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Reflections on a Missiological and Theological Problem.” Journal of Adventist Mission Studies 2/1 (2006): 44–56.
Hromnik, Cyril A. “Njoro — The ‘Dead People’ — And the Spread of Agriculture and Iron in the Basin of the Upper Nile.” Transafrican Journal of History 11 (1982): 112–135.
Hughes, Lotte. Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure. St Antony’s Series. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Huntingford, G. W. B. The Southern Nilo-Hamites. Ethnographic Survey of Africa, edited by Daryll Forde, East Central Africa 8. London: International African Institute, 1953, 1969.
Hurskainen, Arvi. “Formal Categories in Maasai Symbolism.” Chapter 4 in From water to world-making: African models and arid lands, edited by Gísli Pálsson, 59–72. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet / The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1990.
Jacobs, Alan H. “Bibliography of the Masai.” African Studies Bulletin 8/3 (1965): 40–60.
Jennings, Christian. “Beyond Eponymy: The Evidence for Loikop as an Ethnonym in Nineteenth-Century East Africa.” History in Africa 32 (2005): 199–220.
Johnson, Douglas H. and David M. Anderson. “Revealing Prophets.” Chapter 1 in Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History, edited by David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson, 1–27. East African Studies. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1995.
Kenny, Michael G. “Mirror in the Forest: The Dorobo Hunter-Gatherers as an Image of the Other.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 51/1 (1981): 477–495.
Kibutu, Thomas Njuguna. “Development, Gender and the Crisis of Masculinity among the Maasai People of Ngong, Kenya.” PhD Dissertation. University of Leicester, 2006.
Kiel, Christel. Christians in Máasailand: A study of the history of mission among the Máasai in the North Eastern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Erlangen, Germany: Verlag der Evang.-Luth. Mission (Evangelical Lutheran Missionswerk), 1997. [NB: This is a slightly abbreviated translation of Christen in der Steppe: Die Masai-Mission der Nord-Ost-Diözese in der Lutherischen Kirche Tansanias (1996).]
Kiel, Christel. “Health and Healing: The Maasai Prophet Isaia Orishi ole Ndokote and his Evangelistic Mission in Kenya and Tanzania.” In Mission Continues: Global Impulses for the 21st Century, edited by Claudia Währisch-Oblau and Fidon Mwombeki, 211–219. With a “Response” by Ferdinand Anno, 219–221. Regnum Edinburgh 2010 Series. Oxford: Regnum Books, 2010.
Kiel, Christel. Maasai Diviners and Christianity: An Investigation of Three Different Clans of IlÓibonok in Tanzania and the Attitude of the Lutheran Church towards Them. Mission und Gregenwart — Mission Past and Present 11. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2015.
King, Kenneth. “The Kenya Maasai and the Protest Phenomenon, 1900-1960.” The Journal of African History 12/1 (1971): 117–137.
Kipury, Naomi. “Another Maasai Story.” Anthro notes: National Museum of Natural History bulletin for teachers 11/1 (1989): 8–10, 13.
Kipury, Naomi N. Maasai Women in Transition: Gender in the Transformation of a Pastoral Society. Nairobi: Society for Indigenous Culture and Knowledge Systems; Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health, 2020.
Kipury, Naomi. Oral Literature of the Maasai. Nairobi: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983.
[NB: There is a also a 2020 reprint edition; I have a copy of each.]
* Kituyi, Mukhisa. Becoming Kenyans: Socio-economic Transformation of the Pastoral Maasai. Drylands Research Series. Nairobi: Acts Press, 1990.
Knowles, Joan Nancie. “Power, Influence and the Political Process among Iloitai Maasai.” PhD Dissertation. Durham University, 1993.
Kratz, Corinne and Donna Pido. “Gender, Ethnicity & Social Aesthetics in Maasai & Okiek Beadwork.” Chapter 2 in Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson, 43–71. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
ole Kulet, Jackson Lemono. The Maasai: Culture, Beliefs, Education. 2018.
Lamphear, John. “Aspects of ‘Becoming Turkana’: Interactions & Assimilation Between Maa- & Ateker-Speakers.” Chapter 4 in Being Maasai, edited by Thomas Spear and Richard Waller, 87–104. Eastern African Studies. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1993.
* Laube, Raphael. Maasai, Identität und sozialer Wandel bei den Maasai. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schuster. Social Strategies, Monographien zur Soziologie und Gesellschaftspolitik 20. Basel: Karger Libri, 1986.
Lawren, William L. “Masai and Kikuyu: An Historical Analysis of Culture Transmission.” The Journal of African History 9/4 (1968): 571–583.
Laiser, Samson Olodi. “The Understanding and Practice of the Maasai Male circumcision Ritual in a Christian Context, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Northern Diocese.” MTh Dissertation. Oslo: Norwegian School of Theology, 2013.
Lechieni, Masiani and family. “The World of Masiani: Portrait of a Maasai Patriarch.” Translated and edited by Paul Spencer. nd.
Lekundayo, Godwin. The Cosmic Christ: Towards Effective Mission Among the Maasai. Regnum Studies in Mission. Oxford: Regnum Books, 2013. [reprint: Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2013.]
Lesarge, Lmakiya. Proverbs of the Samburu. Nairobi, Aura Publishers, 2018.:Lesorogol, Carolyn K. “Setting Themselves Apart: Education, Capabilities, and Sexuality among Samburu Women in Kenya.” Anthropological Quarterly 81/3 (2008): 551–577.
Little, Peter D. “Maasai Identity on the Periphery.” American Anthropologist 100/2 (1998): 444–457.
Little, Peter D. “Woman as Ol Payian (elder): The status of widows among the Il Chamus (Njemps) of Kenya.” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 52 (1987): 1–2, 81-102.
Lolwerikoi, Michael Lmatila. “Orality and the Land: The Impact of Colonialism on Lmaa Narratives in Kenya.” PhD Dissertation. Asbury Theological Seminary, 2010.
Luck, C. Cardale. “The Origin of the Maasai and Kindred African tribes and of bornean tribes.” Journal of The East Africa and Uganda Natural History 7/26 (1926): 91–108.
Lyana, Ally Z. and Nlooto Manimbulu. “Culture and Food Habits in Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo.” Journal of Human Ecology 48/1 (2014): 9–21.
Lyimo-Mbowe, Hoyce Jacob. Maasai Women and the Old Testament: Towards an Emancipatory Reading. Bible and Theology in Africa 29. Edited by Knut Holter. Peter Lang, 2020.
Maguire, R. A. J. “‘il-torōbo’: Part I: Being Some Notes on the Various Types of ‘Dorobo’ Found in the Masai Reserve of Tanganyika Territory and Contiguous Districts.” Journal of the Royal African Society 27/106 (1928): 127–141.
Maguire, R. A. J. “The Maasai Penal Code.” Journal of the Royal African Society 28/109 (1928): 12–18.
Margetts, Edward L. “On the Masai E-Unoto.” Man 63 (1963): 190–192.
Massek, A. ol’Oloisolo and J. O. Sidai. Eŋeno oo lMaasai: Wisdom of Maasai. Nairobi: TransAfrica Publishers, 1974.
Massoi, Lucy Willy. “Women in Pastoral Societies and the Church in Kilosa, Tanzania.” African study monographs 56 (March 2018): 77–86.
May, Ann and Francis Ndipapa Ole Ikayo. “Wearing Illkarash: Narratives of Image, Identity and Change among Maasai Labour Migrants in Tanzania.” Development and Change 38/2 (2007): 275–298.
Mullenix, Gordon R. and John Mpaayei. “Matonyok: A Case Study of the Interaction of Evangelism and Community Development Among the Keekonyokie Maasai of Kenya.” Practical Anthropology 12/3 (1984): 327–337.
Mol, Frans. Maasai Language and Culture. Lemek, Kenya: Maasai Centre Lemek, 1996.
* Mol, Frans. Maasai Mara. 1982.
* Mol, Frans. “The Meaning and Concept in Maa of ‘Enkai’ (God).” AMECEA Apostalate to Nomads 50. Nairobi: November 20, 1981.
Mtaita, Leonard A. The Wandering Shepherds and the Good Shepherd: Contextualization as the Way of Doing Mission with the Maasai in the ELT – Pare Diocese. Mukumira Publication 11. Erlanger, Germany: Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene / Arusha, Tanzania: The Research Institute of Mukumira University College, 1998.
* ole Mpaayei, John Tompo. Inkuti pukunot oo lMaasai. Edited by A. N. [Archibald Norman] Tucker. African Annotated Texts 3. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.
Myers, Norman. “The Masai: Modernizing the Myth.” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 35 (1973): 147–164.
ole Nangoro, Benedict. “The Current Situation in Tanzania Maasailand.” Indigenous Affairs (1999; no. 2 – April, May, June): 25–29.
Neckebrouck, Valeer. Le Maasai et le Christianism: Le temps du grand refus. Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia XLI. Leuven: Peeters, 2002.
Neckebrouck, Valeer. Resistant Peoples: The Case of the Pastoral Maasai of East Africa. Inculturation: Working Papers on Living Faith and Cultures 14. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, 1993.
Nkesela, Zephania Shila. “A Maasai Encounter with the Bible: Nomadic Lifestyle as a Hermeneutical Question. PhD Dissertation. Stavanger, Norway: VID Specialized University, 2017.
Nkesela, Zephania Shila. A Maasai Encounter with the Bible: Nomadic Lifestyle as a Hermeneutic Question. Bible and Theology in Africa 30. Edited by Knut Holter. New York: Peter Lang, 2020.
Nyambura, Ruth, Peter Waweru, Reuben Matheka, and Tom Nyamache. “The Economic Utility of Beads Culture of the Samburu Tribe of Kenya.” African Journal of Social Sciences 3/4 (2013): 79–84.
Ogega, Jacqueline Christine. “Faith, Gender and Peacebuilding: The roles of women of faith in peacebuilding in the conflict between the Gusii and Maasai of south-western Kenya.” PhD Dissertation. University of Bradford, 2014.
Okiya, Denis Odinga. “The Centrality of Marriage in African Religio-culture with Reference to the Maasai of Kajiado County, Kenya.” PhD Dissertation. Kenyatta University, 2008.
Orchardson, I. Q. “Origin of the Maasai.” Journal of The East Africa and Uganda Natural History 28/19 (1927): 19–23.
Parsalaw, Joseph Wilson. A history of the Lutheran Church, Diocese in the Arusha Region from 1904 to 1958. Erlanger Verlag für Mission und Ökumene, 1999.
Potkanski, Tomasz. “Mutual Assistance among the Ngorongoro Maasai.” Chapter 9 in The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa, edited by David M. Anderson and Vigdis Broch-Due, 199–217. Eastern African Studies. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2000.
Priest, Doug, Jr. Doing Theology with the Maasai. Pasadena, California: William Carey Library, 1990.
Richter, Roland E. “Landnutzungskonflikte in den Weidegebieten Tanzanias: Die Geschichte der fortschreitenden Entrechtung der Maasai seit dem Beginn der Kolonialzeit.” Africa Spectrum 29/3 (1994): 265–284.
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