'The Maasai coffee table book; some photos are too much to take at reading distance. Exquisite but largely staged portraits of a vanishing culture (and even Beckwith's camera can't disguise the tourist souvenirs in the background). Variably interesting, chauvinistic text, which plays the cult value of the Maasai for all it's worth.'
Roughguides Internet Bookreview 1996,
Book ID 228
See also
Saitoti, Tepilit Ole and Beckwith, Carol Maasai, 1980
See also
Saitoti, Tepilit Ole and Beckwith, Carol Maasai, 1980
The Maasai coffee table book; some photos are too much to take at reading distance. Exquisite but largely staged portraits of a vanishing culture (and even Beckwith's camera can't disguise the tourist souvenirs in the background). Variably interesting, chauvinistic text, which plays the cult value of the Maasai for all it's worth.
Roughguides Internet Bookreview 1996
