书本目录:
  • PART I. Introduction
  • 1. Gender, symbolism and praxis : theoretical approaches / Henrietta L. Moore
  • PART II. Ritual symbols : performance and narratives
  • 2. 'Doing gender' in Africa : Embodying categories and the categorically disembodied / Todd Sanders
  • 3. The lion at the waterhole : the secret of life and death in Chewa rites de passage / Deborah Kaspin
  • 4. First gender, wrong sex / Camilla Power ; Ian Watts
  • 5. Saisee Tororeita : an analysis of complementary in Akie gender ideology / Bwire Kaare
  • 6. Creation and the multiple female body : Turkana perspectives on gender and cosmos / Vigdis Broch-Due
  • PART III. Gender, fertility and social agency
  • 7. 'Dealing with men's spears' : Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility / Astrid Blystad
  • 8. Gender ideology, and the domestic and public domains among the Iraqw / Katherine A. Snyder
  • 9. Women's work is weeping : constructions of gender in a catholic community / Maia Green
  • PART IV. Chaos and creativity : the transformative symbolism of fused categories / Anita Jacobson-Widding