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Title: | Coping with State Pressure to Change: How Akie Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania Seek to Maintain Their Cultural Identity |
Author: | Kaare, Bwire |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Nomadic Peoples |
Issue: | 36-37 |
Pages: | 217-225 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | Dorobo hunter-gatherers sedentarization Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43123460 |
Abstract: | The Akie (also referred to as Dorobo, Ndorobo or Il-Torobo) are a small hunting and gathering community living along the southern fringes of the Maasai steppe in northern Tanzania. They have maintained symbiotic relations with their neighbours (Maasai and Bantu) for quite a long time. The Akie hunter-gatherers have since the early 1960s been encountering various attempts by the Tanzanian government to change them into a sedentary ethnic group. This paper analyses the way the Akie people have reacted to the policies of integration in a nation State. It shows that both the ritualistic and mundane worlds of the Akie hold on to the past in relation to the present, as a medium through which the present is created. It is within this context that the community gauges external pressure to change. Bibliogr., note, sum. in French and Spanish. |