Beyond bodies : rainmaking and sense making in Tanzania /

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"For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sanders, Todd, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
Colección:Anthropological horizons ; 32.
Temas:
Isanzu (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Rain-making rites > Tanzania > Iramba District.
Sex role > Tanzania > Iramba District.
Social epistemology.
Pluie > Rites et cérémonies > Tanzanie > Iramba (District)
Ihanzu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Rites et cérémonies.
Rôle selon le sexe > Tanzanie > Iramba (District)
Épistémologie sociale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Manners and customs
Rain-making rites
Sex role
Social epistemology
Religionsethnologie
Regenzauber
Ritus
Geschlechterforschung
Iramba District (Tanzania) > Social life and customs.
Iramba (Tanzanie : District) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Tanzania > Iramba District
Tansania
Nilamba.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Language and Orthography
  • Introduction: Rainmaking, Gender Epistemologies, and Explanation
  • 1. Ihanzu Everyday Worlds
  • 2. The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns
  • 3. Gendered Life-Worlds and Transformative Processes
  • 4. Annual Rain Rites
  • 5. (Wo)men Behaving Badly: Genders within Bodies
  • 6. Ancestral Rain Offerings: Genders without Bodies
  • 7. Witchcraft, Gender, and Inversion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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