Woman Masai Movie Analysis

DVD Report: Woman Masai The movie was made in Western highlands along the Kenya and Tanzania border. In the East African along the rift valley lived by the Masai. The Messiah are pastoralism society and they domesticate herd animals. The Messiah society can be both a transhumant or nomadic pastoralism. The men and the boys move with the catties. The Messiah are animals herds they despise hunting and do not grow crops of any kind. Land is held in common and animals are the only form of wealth. The Messiah love their cows and each animal has a name and the men compose long poetic songs in praise of their herds. The Masai use everything produced by their animals. They eat their flesh and drink their milk, their bed covering is made from their animal’s skin and containers made from their horns. The Masai conception of wealth is different from our own. Women and children as well as animals make up a man’s estate. A man’s riches may be measured not only by the size of his herd but also by the number of his human dependence wealth. Wealth involves rights over people as well as rights over things
One man in the video have called the librarian has a large village also he has many women, cattle’s, sheep’s, children and goats. The Masai society practices polygamy because …show more content…
Women do not have a lot of advances of giving gifts to their friends but women sometimes give away their own children to their mothers, co wife, and sisters. A woman will ask god for enkisgon so her own children will look after her. Enkisgon means to be favored with sons and daughters and thus become rich. As they grow up the women can travel around to stay with her children, that’s why everyone asks god for enkisgon. It’s good for the women to depend on her children but not with someone else. When their children grow up the women will go and live with one of her sons and her husband will live with his younger