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

Other author Moore, Henrietta L., 1957-
Other author Sanders, Todd, 1965-
Other author Kaare, Bwire, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1999.
Descriptionix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Rites and ceremonies--Africa, Eastern.
Rites and ceremonies--Africa, Southern.
Sex role--Africa, Eastern.
Sex role--Africa, Southern.
Human body--Symbolic aspects. --Africa, Eastern.
Human body--Symbolic aspects. --Africa, Southern.
Africa, Eastern--Social life and customs.
Africa, Southern--Social life and customs.

SeriesLondon School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; no. 69
London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; no. 69. ^A423192
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99012208 99001220
ISBN0485195690 (cloth)

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