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🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾 An ethnic group 🌍 A place in Kenya 🗣️ A Maa language
Samburu

Samburu

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A person from a semi-nomadic people in northern Kenya who moves with animals and keeps strong traditions
  • proper noun
: samburu
  • Their attitudes reflect modern and Western views of the individual and imply new possibilities for Samburu women that clearly challenge gender norms and marriage traditions.
  • Samburu women
  • Samburu culture
  • Samburu girls

It would destroy Rat Perry and forests, which were the basis for the survival of nomadic groups, the Samburu and the Tokana in this area.

Examples

  • Research for this study was conducted in two Samburu communities, Mbaringon and Siambu, from June to December 2005 and June to August of 2006.

    Academic text (2008)

  • While they hope that attitudes toward girls' education will change, educated girls and women also realize that their opposition to aspects of Samburu culture is interpreted negatively by other Samburu, including uneducated girls.

    Academic text (2008)

  • From most accounts, the Samburu were not enthusiastic about education at first.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Here, girls critique fundamental Samburu institutions of arranged marriage and female circumcision.

    Academic text (2008)

  • I do not have data on the numbers of pregnancies among schoolgirls or unmarried Samburu girls in general.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Such sentiments constitute a challenge to the Samburu norm of early and arranged marriage and contribute to suspicion and negative stereotyping of educated girls.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The color red has many cultural and aesthetic values for the Samburu, including associations with social transitions, blood, and sensuality (Kasfir 2007:222-224).

    Academic text (2008)

  • Although boys are also influenced by these ideas, the greater rigidity of gender roles for women among Samburu heightens the conflict and sharpens the boundaries between educated and uneducated girls in ways that do not appear as problematic among men.

    Academic text (2008)

  • While ways of speaking are also important in the Samburu case and are an important means for the researcher to access the thinking of the informants, Samburu women's boundary work is also embodied in the clothing and beaded jewelry they wear and is evidenced in their behavior.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The Samburu people have rich cultural traditions that include vibrant ceremonies and elaborate dress.

Surface Forms

Samburu main

Etymology

Samburu comes from the Maa language of northern Kenya and is the name the people use for themselves. Like saying 'French' for someone from France, Samburu means a member of that community.