Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia : an exploration of the comparative method /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gregor, Thomas, Tuzin, Donald F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Sex role > Amazon River Region.
Sex role > Melanesia.
Gender identity > Amazon River Region.
Gender identity > Melanesia.
Sex differences.
Kinship > Amazon River Region.
Kinship > Melanesia.
Sex Characteristics
Rôle selon le sexe > Amazonie.
Rôle selon le sexe > Mélanésie.
Identité de genre > Amazonie.
Identité de genre > Mélanésie.
Différences entre sexes > Amazonie.
Différences entre sexes > Mélanésie.
Parenté > Amazonie.
Parenté > Mélanésie.
Différences entre sexes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Gender identity
Kinship
Manners and customs
Sex differences
Sex role
Geschlechterrolle
Sekseverschillen.
Amazon River Region > Social life and customs.
Melanesia > Social life and customs.
Amazonie > Mœurs et coutumes.
Mélanésie > Mœurs et coutumes.
Amazon River Region
Melanesia
Amazonas-Gebiet
Melanesien
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparing gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: a theoretical orientation
  • Two forms of masculine ritualized rebirth: the Melanesian body and the Amazonian cosmos
  • The variety of fertility cultism in Amazonia: a closer look at gender symbolism in Northwestern Amazonia
  • Reproducing inequality: the gender politics of male cults in the Papua New Guinea highlands and Amazonia
  • The genres of gender: local models and global paradigms in the comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia
  • Aged-based genders among the Kayapo
  • Women's blood, warriors' blood, and the conquest of vitality in Amazonia
  • Damming the rivers of milk? Fertility, sexuality, and modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia
  • Worlds overturned: gender-infected religious movements in Melanesia and the Amazon
  • Same-sex and cross-sex relations: some internal comparisons
  • The gender of some Amazonian gifts: an experiment with an experiment
  • "Strength" and sexuality: sexual avoidance and masculinity in New Guinea and Amazonia
  • The anguish of gender: men's cults and moral contradiction in Amazonia and Melanesia
  • Reflections on the land of Melazonia.

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