Abstract
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Dorothy Hodgson's latest book, Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous, draws on over two decades of experience working and researching among the Maasai of Tanzania, to explore the rise and fall of their involvement with the international indigenous rights movement. Hodgson documents how the Maasai "became indigenous", a concept more commonly associated with "original inhabitants" or "first peoples" in the Americas and Australia, as a politically viable strategy to restate long-standing grievances against the Tanzanian state in a language that was internationally recognized. [...]Hodgson continues to emphasize the importance of the state in the lives of Tanzanian Maasai, through the connections between development and the exercise of state power.