Maasai perspectives on modernity: Narratives of evolution, nature and culture

[en] The narrative of evolutionist modernity is a former scientific theory which has fuelled and legitimized deeply harmful imperialist hierarchies, but increasingly influences how Maasai make sense of modernity. Borrowing from narratology and building on twelve years of intermittent ethnography in East-African Maasailand, I respond to recent calls for cognitive justice. Firstly, I contribute to insight in how Maasai, as Indigenous Southern people, conceptualize key scientific concepts such as modernity, as to further the availability of their understandings as partners in the dialogue of theory building. I especially regard continuities and shifts in their uses of nature/culture and Culture/culture dichotomies. Secondly, I disclose, question and deconstruct the continued centralization of Eurocentric narratives and modernist assumptions in academic sense-making, as this unreflexively denies the gradual difference and continued entanglements of scientific, ex-scientific and non-scientific narratives, and the need to include Southern experiences and knowledges to make science a truly global knowledge system.

Disciplines :

Anthropology

Author, co-author :

Wijngaarden, Vanessa ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Anthropologie de la communication ; Department of Communication Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Language :

English

Title :

Maasai perspectives on modernity: Narratives of evolution, nature and culture

Alternative titles :

[fr] Perspectives Massaï sur la modernité: récits sur l’évolution, la nature et la culture

Publication date :

2021

Journal title :

Critical African Studies

ISSN :

2168-1392

eISSN :

2040-7211

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Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Pages :

197 - 215

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21681392.2020.1850303

Funders :

DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
UJ - University of Johannesburg

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This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; University of Johannesburg.

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