Maasai

maasai English Alternative forms en Masai Massai Etymology en Pronunciation en /ˈmɑːsaɪ/ Noun * A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania. en 2005 Edward M. Bruner Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KygNKaMdl9YC&pg=PA24&dq=%22pretour%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&ei=U5X0S6z1BqiEywTXzuSyBQ&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22pretour%22&f=false 24 Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist. en 2005 Randall Elam Mayes The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing https://books.google.com/books?id=PaONAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 92 According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide. Translations group of people Finnish: fi maasait p German: de Massai m Hungarian: hu maszai, hu maszáj Maasai: mas ɨl-Máásâɨ̂ Portuguese: pt massai m-p Russian: ru масаи Swahili: sw Mmasai Wamasai Proper noun An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people. Translations language Finnish: fi maasai Hungarian: hu maszai Maasai: mas ɔl Maa Portuguese: pt massai m Russian: ru масайский Swahili: sw Kimasai Swedish: sv maa, sv massaj Further reading mas Anagrams en aaaims Amasia en Ethnonyms Languages