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Those who play with fire : gender, fertility and transformation in East and Southern Africa / Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders, Bwire Kaare, [editors].

Title: Those who play with fire : gender, fertility and transformation in East and Southern Africa / Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders, Bwire Kaare, [editors].
Publication: London ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1999.

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ix, 310 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; v. 69

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Monographs on social anthropology no. 69.

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Contents

Gender, symbolism and praxis : theoretical approaches / Henrietta L. Moore -- 'Doing gender' in Africa : embodying categories and the categorically disembodied / Todd Sanders -- The lion at the waterhole : the secrets of life and death in Chewa Rites de passage / Deboarah Kaspin -- First gender, wrong sex / Camilla Power and Ian Watts -- Saisee Tororeita : an analysis of complementarity in Akie gender ideology / Bwire Kaare -- Creation and the multiple female body : Turkana perspectives on gender and cosmos / Vigdis Broch-Due -- 'Dealing with men's spears' : Datooga pastoralists combating male intrusion on female fertility / Astrid Blystad -- Gender ideology, and the domestic and public domains among the Iraqw / Katherine A. Snyder -- Women's work is weeping : constructions of gender in a Catholic community / Maia Green -- Chaos and creativity : the transformative symbolism of fused categories / Anita Jacobson-Widding.

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0485195690 (cloth)

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^^^99012208^

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