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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...

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Otros Autores: Tuzin, Donald F., Gregor, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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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