Beyond Bodies : Rain-making 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanders, Todd, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschlechterforschung
Ritus
Regenzauber
Religionsethnologie
Social epistemology.
Sex role.
Rain-making rites.
Manners and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Épistemologie sociale.
Rôle selon le sexe > Tanzanie > Iramba (District)
Ihanzu (Peuple d'Afrique) > Rites et ceremonies.
Pluie > Rites et ceremonies > Tanzanie > Iramba (District)
Sex role > Tanzania > Iramba District.
Rain-making rites > Tanzania > Iramba District.
Isanzu (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Nilamba.
Tansania
Tanzania > Iramba District.
Iramba (Tanzanie : District) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Iramba District (Tanzania) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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