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What type of society are the maasai

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The Masai tribe occupying the parts of modern Kenya and Tanzania in Africa are an indigenous pastoral society with a long preserved culture which is passed on to the next generation through oral traditions. Despite education, civilization and western cultural influences, the Maasai people have clung to their traditional way of life, making them a symbol of Kenyan culture. They are patriarchal in their social organisation with the elder Massai men determining the major decisions for the entire tribe. They followed a simple economic relationship of barter system involving livestock, root vegetables, tools, etc. however, wage and cash economy has been fast replacing the barter (trade) system with the acculturation of the Massai tribesman with modern industrial societies in Kenya and Tanzania.