Those Who Play with Fire

Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
Herausgeber: Moore, Henrietta; Kaare, Bwire; Sanders, Todd

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the ways in which gender categories permeate African systems of thought and ritual practices.

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Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780826463678
• ISBN-10: 0826463673
• Artikelnr.: 21801269

Autorenporträt

Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute and Todd Sanders is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, both at the London School of Economics. Bwire Kaare is Lecturer in the Institute of Finance Management, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1 INTRODUCTION1 Gender, Symbolism and Praxis: Theoretical
ApproachesPART II RITUAL SYMBOLS: PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVES2 'Doing
Gender' in Africa: Embodying Categories and the Categorically Disembodied3
The Lion at the Waterhole: The Secrets of Life and Death in Chewa4 First
Gender, Wrong Sex5 Saisee Tororeita: An Analysis of Complementarity in Akie
Gender Ideology6 Creation and the Multiple Female Body: Turkana
Perspectives on Gender and CosmosPART III GENDER, FERTILITY AND SOCIAL
AGENCY7 'Dealing with Men's Spears': Datooga Pastoralists Combating Male
Intrusion on Female Fertility8 Gender Ideology, and the Domestic and Public
Domains Among the Iraqw9 Women's Work is Weeping: Constructions of Gender
in a Catholic CommunityPART IV AFTERWARD10 Chaos and Creativity: The
Transformative Symbolism of Fused Categories