ISBN:
9780802095824
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9780802091499
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 261 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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23 cm
Series Statement:
Anthropological horizons 32
Series Statement:
Anthropological horizons
DDC:
305.896/39067826 22 22
Keywords:
Rain-making rites / Tanzania / Iramba District
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Isanzu (African people) / Rites and ceremonies
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Sex role / Tanzania / Iramba District
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Social epistemology
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Pluie / Rites et cérémonies / Tanzanie / Iramba (District)
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Isanzu (Peuple d'Afrique) / Rites et cérémonies
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Rôle selon le sexe / Tanzanie / Iramba (District)
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Épistémologie sociale
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Isanzu (Peuple d'Afrique) - Rites et cérémonies
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Pluie - Rites et cérémonies - Tanzanie - Iramba (District)
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Rôle selon le sexe - Tanzanie - Iramba (District)
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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Isanzu (African people) Rites and ceremonies
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Rain-making rites
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Sex role
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Social epistemology
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Geschlechterrolle
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Magie
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Regenzauber
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Iramba District (Tanzania) / Social life and customs
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Iramba (Tanzanie : District) / Moeurs et coutumes
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Iramba (Tanzanie : District) - Moeurs et coutumes
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Iramba District (Tanzania) Social life and customs
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Tansania
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Tansania
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Regenzauber
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Tansania
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Geschlechterrolle
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Magie
Abstract:
"For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when they insist that rain rites and the gender and sexual motifs in them do not symbolize anything but rather aim simply to bring rain?" "Beyond Bodies examines Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites. It considers the meaning of ritual practices in a society in which gender is not as bound to the body as it is in the Euro-American imagination. Engaging with recent anthropological and gender theory, this book calls crucially into question how social scientists have explained gender symbolism in a host of ethnographic and historical studies from across Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index
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