Dialectics And Gender

Anthropological Approaches
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-01210-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the "war between the sexes". It deals with the politics of large state-sized units and conflict in the form of overt war between Indians and colonial powers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Randolph, Richard R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dialectics and Gender: An Introduction and Context -- Gender Totemism -- Phallic Symbolism and Reproductive Expropriation: Sexual Politics in Cross Cultural Perspective -- Oedipus in the Political Economy: Theme and Variations in Amazonia -- Sexual Antagonism and Play in Mundurucu Society: The Fun is in the Chase -- Some Considerations of Myth and Gender in a Northwest Amazon Society -- "She Who is Covered with Feces:" the Dialectics of Gender among the Mehinaku of Brazil -- Histrionics in Culture -- War and the Sexes in Amazonia -- The Ka apor Indian Wars of Lower Amazonia, Ca. 1825-1928 -- Invisible People: Ostracism in Cashinahua Society -- Conflict, Contradiction, and the Study of Religion -- Female Circumcision in Africa: The Dialectics of Equality -- Abiding Women: Sexuality and Control in Modern Teso -- Wage Contracts and Wage Conflict in Northern Nigerian Agriculture: Toward a Dialectical Understanding of the Changing Social Organization of Work -- Family, Religion and State: Middle Eastern Models -- The Beni Meklaab over the Horizon: Males and Females, Dogs and Bedouin -- Bed Posts and Broad Swords: Twareg Women’s Work Parties and the Dialectics of Sexual Conflict -- Moulay Abedsalem: An Ethnographic Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

Richard R. Randolph, University of California, Santa Cruz. Also edited by David M. Schneider and May N. Diaz.