The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries

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299 Index Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. afterlife, 46–47, 144, 267n50 age-grades, 7–8 age-sets, 7–9, 36, 46, 49, 57–60 agriculture: Maasai practices, 7, 13, 179; Spiritan interest in, 73, 104–105 alcohol, 19, 89, 192, 194. See also honey beer Allen, Roland, 90, 126–127 Alsace, 70, 72, 83 altars, 142, 152, 162, 174 amulets, 30, 37, 39, 43–44, 63, 64 anger, 31–32, 34, 62. See also red Anglican church, 85, 159, 276n49. See also Church Missionary Society Anglo-German agreement of 1890, 10, 83 “Anna,” 163 anthropology, 88, 101, 270n15 Archdiocese of Arusha, 82–83. See also Diocese of Arusha Århem, Kaj, 49–50, 265n22 arrows, 52, 53 Arusha Diocesan Development Office (ADDO), 94, 204 Arusha people, 80, 96–97, 113, 146, 148, 158, 170, 200, 273n14 Arusha town, 80, 82–83, 89; map of, 81 ashes, 34, 39 Ashumu (prophet), 244, 247–251, 248, 252 attendance, church, 137–138, 149, 150, 153, 161, 165, 166, 182–183, 197 Bagge, S., 51, 55 baptism, 78, 92, 96, 98, 103–104, 121–122, 125, 145, 148–149, 153, 158–164, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 175–176, 191, 199, 202, 207, 216, 219–220, 244, 247, 250 Barsai, 31–32 bathing, 52 Baumann, Oscar, 27, 41 beads, 32, 33–34, 51, 58 beauty, 57 beliefs, 14–15, 19–20, 21–67, 91–92, 154–158, 166–169, 177–180, 188–206, 214–215, 223–229, 230–243. See also conversion; Eng’ai; faith; inculturation Bennett, Norman, 83 Benson, Pastor Stanley, 24–25, 264n14 Berlin Act of 1885, 83 Bernsten, John, 7, 40, 41, 43, 58, 60 betrothal, 60 Bible, 131–133, 142, 152, 200, 241 birds, 31, 52 bishops, 80, 189. See also specific names black, 7, 22, 23–24, 31, 32–33, 36, 39, 48, 50, 51, 54, 60, 66, 152, 175, 213, 245, 276n6; ritual dress, 42, 53, 246 blessings, 25–27, 30, 31, 32, 45, 50, 58, 59, 233, 235–236, 239; blessing ritual, 237 blood, 28, 32–34, 48, 50, 51, 52, 55, 64, 66 blood brotherhood, 28, 32 blood money, 35, 64–65, 226 blood revenge, 64–65 bodies, 47, 51, 213 bones, 52 bovine pleuropneumonia, 10 bows, 52, 53, 64 boys. See ilayiok; isipolio branding irons, 60 breasts, 37 Brennan, Father Joseph, 190 brideservice, 153 bridewealth, 58, 60, 199 British colonial rule, 10, 189–190, 262n17; policies toward Maasai, 10–11, 211; and slavery, 76; and Spiritans, 83–85, 117. See also colonialism Bura Catholic mission, 78 Burton, John, 22, 23, 46, 264n9, 265n26 Butts, Father Robert, 135, 149 Byrne, Father Joseph, 79, 80, 88–89, 110 Carmody, Brendan, 5 catechesis, 73, 78, 88–89, 103–104, 121–122, 136–137, 146, 157, 167, 169, 171– 173, 179, 182, 191, 198, 201, 202, 216, 227–228, 244. See also evangelization Index 300 catechists, 16, 70, 76–77, 103, 110, 114–144 passim, 150, 152, 176–177, 186–187, 188–189, 197–204, 216, 238–239, 260, 274n25; female, 138, 186–187. See also specific names catechumenate, 271n37 Catholic church, 1, 5, 15, 141–142, 167, 243, 252–255. See also Spiritans; and specific churches, missions Catholic Teacher’s Training College (Singa Chini), 79, 116, 198 Catholic Theological Union (CTU), 100, 101 cattle, 8, 22–23, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32–33, 37, 44, 50, 56, 58, 59, 60, 212, 232, 248, 264n15. See also hides; livestock; milk; pastoralism ceremonial hut, 58 Chagga, 78, 89, 97, 101, 110, 188 chalk, 32, 34, 51, 56, 59, 232, 253; ritual chalk markings, 33, 53 Chanel, Joseph, 71–72, 109–110 charcoal, 34 childbirth, 50–51, 57, 212–213, 244, 247 children, 21, 25, 46–47, 109–110. See also ilayiok ; intoyie choirs, 150, 152, 175, 191 choke law, 138, 140 Christian, William, 15 Christian villages, 73, 74–75 Christianity, 5, 15 Christy, Father William, 69, 99–105, 151–153, 164–166, 165, 173–177, 181, 182, 183, 191, 194, 198, 199, 201–202, 204, 208– 209, 238 Church Missionary Society, 72 “church of women,” 2, 17, 145–187, 205, 209 circles, 30, 35, 37, 46–47, 50, 54, 59, 61, 220; circular ritual marking, 33. See also female imagery; rings circumcision, 25, 28, 32, 51–57, 235, 236, 238, 239 clans, 7, 8, 262n13. See also Ilkiboron sub-clan; Inkidong’i clan; Laiser clan clergy, 70, 76–77, 79. See also diocesan priests; Spiritans; specific names clothing, 32, 33, 51, 52, 55, 56...