Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Gendered Symbols and Social Practices
1. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-85496-868-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women

Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleie, Tone

Broch-Due, Vigdis

Rudie, I.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

V. Broch-Due and I. Rudie, Carved Flesh/Cast Selves: An Introduction - M. Strathern, Making Incomplete - V. Broch-Due, Making and Meaning out of Matter: Perceptions of sex, gender and bodies among the Turkana - A. Talle, Transforming Women into `Pure' Agnates: Aspects of Female Infibulation in Somalia - A. Scrum, Encountering Femininity: The ontogenesis of Bedamini male selves - S. Lund Skar, Marry the Land, Divorce the Man: Quechua Marriage and the Problem of Individual Autonomy - T. Borchgrevink and J. Solheim, A Rotten Text? Gender, Food and Interpretation - I. Rudie, The Ritual work of Malay marriage as a field of debate - K. Sandborg, Malay Dress Symbolism - K. Ask, Ishq aur Mohabbat: Ideas about love and friendship in a northern Pakistani community - K. Siverts, I Did Not Marry Properly: The Meaning of Marriage Payments in Southern Mexico - M. Melhuus, I Want to Buy Me A Baby!: Some Reflections on Gender and Change in Modern Society - T. Bleie, The Search for Androgyny: Tracking Some of its Roots and Versions

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Carved Flesh / Cast Selves