Beyond Bodies

Name: Beyond Bodies
Brand: University Of Toronto Press
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Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania

Autor: Todd Sanders

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: University Of Toronto Press

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For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with si...

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Autor

Todd Sanders

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2008

Stránok

288

EAN

9780802095824

ISBN

0802095828

Enbook ID

04711457

Vydavateľ

University Of Toronto Press

Hmotnosť

440

Rozmery

153 x 229 x 17

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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 and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when they insist that rain rites and the gender and sexual motifs in them do not symbolize anything but rather aim simply to bring rain? Beyond Bodies examines Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites. It considers the meaning of ritual practices in a society in which gender is not as bound to the body as it is in the Euro-American imagination. Engaging with recent anthropological and gender theory, this book crucially calls into question how social scientists have explained gender symbolism in myriad ethnographic and historical studies across Africa.

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