Those who play with fire : gender, fertility and transformation in East and Southern Africa. Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders, Bwire Kaare, [editors]

• Author: Moore, Henrietta L;
  Sanders, Todd (1965-);
  Kaare, Bwire (1954-)
• Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Eastern;
  Rites and ceremonies -- Africa, Southern;
  Sex role -- Africa, Eastern;
  Sex role -- Africa, Southern;
  Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa, Eastern;
  Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa, Southern;
  Rites et cérémonies -- Afrique orientale;
  Rites et cérémonies -- Afrique du Sud;
  Rôle selon le sexe -- Afrique orientale;
  Rôle selon le sexe -- Afrique du Sud;
  Africa, Eastern -- Social life and customs;
  Africa, Southern -- Social life and customs
• Description: pcc
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Gender, symbolism and praxis: theoretical approaches / Henrietta L. Moore 'Doing gender' in Africa: embodying categories and the categorically disembodied / Todd Sanders The lion at the waterhole: the secrets of life and death in Chewa Rites de passage / Deboarah Kaspin First gender, wrong sex / Camilla Power and Ian Watts Saisee Tororeita: an analysis of complementarity in Akie gender ideology / Bwire Kaare Creation and the multiple female body: Turkana perspectives on gender and cosmos / Vigdis Broch-Due 'Dealing with men's spears': Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility / Astrid Blystad Gender ideology, and the domestic and public domains among the Iraqw / Katherine A. Snyder Women's work is weeping: constructions of gender in a Catholic community / Maia Green Chaos and creativity: the transformative symbolism of fused categories / Anita Jacobson-Widding
  
• Related Titles: Series: London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology no. 69
• Publisher: London New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1999
  
• Creation Date: 1999
  
• Format: ix, 310 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
  
• Language: English