Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 392 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520228529
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0520228510
Content:
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the core of religion, symbolism, and cosmology, and they permeate ideas about body imagery, procreation, growth, men's cults, and rituals of initiation. T
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-376) and indexes
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. Comparing Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: A Theoretical Orientation; 2. Two Forms of Masculine Ritualized Rebirth: The Melanesian Body and the Amazonian Cosmos; 3. The Variety of Fertility Cultism in Amazonia: A Closer Look at Gender Symbolism in Northwestern Amazonia; 4. Reproducing Inequality: The Gender Politics of Male Cults in the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Amazonia; 5. The Genres of Gender: Local Models and Global Paradigms in the Comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia; 6. Age-Based Genders among the Kayapo
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7. Women's Blood, Warriors' Blood, and the Conquest of Vitality in Amazonia8. Damming the Rivers of Milk? Fertility, Sexuality, and Modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia; 9. Worlds Overturned: Gender-Inflected Religious Movements in Melanesia and the Amazon; 10. Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Relations: Some Internal Comparisons; 11. The Gender of Some Amazonian Gifts: An Experiment with an Experiment; 12. "Strength" and Sexuality: Sexual Avoidance and Masculinity in New Guinea and Amazonia; 13. The Anguish of Gender: Men's Cults and Moral Contradiction in Amazonia and Melanesia
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14. Reflections on the Land of MelazoniaREFERENCES; CONTRIBUTORS; NAME INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; SUBJECT INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520228528
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia : An Exploration of the Comparative Method
Language:
English
