Beyond Bodies : Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania /
"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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo, NY :
University of Toronto Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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