Carved Flesh / Cast Selves: Gendered Symbols and Social Practices

by Tone Bleie (Editor), Vigdis Broch-Due (Editor), I. Rudie (Editor)

Overview

All the papers in this volume deal with the central theme of gender. The social contexts they examine range widely from Melanesia and Southeast Asia to Africa, Europe and America; yet in each case of these very diverse cases the concern is to analyse the ways in which gender is constructed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000323160
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/07/2021
Series:	Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

VIGDIS BROCH-DUE , has recently been employed as Senior Lecturer at the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of Oslo. Ingrid Rudie is Professor and Head of the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of Oslo. She has fieldwork experience in Norway and Malaysia.

Table of Contents

1. Carved Flesh - Cast Selves: An Introduction 2. Making Incomplete 3. Making Meaning Out of Matter: Perceptions of Sex, Gender and Bodies among the Tbrkana 4. Transforming Women into ‘Pure’ Agnates: Aspects of Female Infibulation in Somalia 5. Encountering Femininity: The Ontogenesis of Bedamini Male Selves 6. Marry the Land,Divorce the Man: Quechua Marriage and the Problem of Individual Autonomy 7. A Rotten Text? Gender, Food and Interpretation 8. The Ritual Work of Malay Marriage as a Field of Debate 9. Malay Dress Symbolism10. Ishq aur Mohabbat: Ideas about Loveand Friendship in a Northern Pakistani Community 11. ‘I did not marry properly’: The Meaning of Marriage Payments in Southern Mexico 12. ‘I want to buy me a baby!’: Some Reflections on Gender and Change in Modern Society 13. Aspects of Androgyny 14. Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

... advances the theoretical discourse on the anthropology of the body ... is also intriguing because it introduces the reader to the "hotbed" of Norwegian thought on gender.” —Folk

“There is something for everyone here and reading the volume in sequence, rather than dipping into individual chapters, was an unusually pleasurable experience. The changing foci and styles produced its own rhythm, engaging the attention and maintaining the reader's interest as a complex theoretical argument would be superseded by a more descriptive and evocative ethnographic account. [...]

In allowing us access to contemporary Norwegian anthropology it is a most welcome contribution and in providing further studies of gender it should prove a useful resource for both teachers and students of sociology and anthropology.” —Jourbanal of Gender Studies

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