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Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia : an exploration of the comparative method /
One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and 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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and 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. The contributors illuminate the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-376) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780520935815 0520935810 9780520228511 0520228510 9780520228528 0520228529 1597346306 9781597346306 9786612762482 6612762489 1282762486 9781282762480 |