Gendered Anthropology.

In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which...

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Main Author: Valle, Teresa del
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:European Association of Social Anthropologists.
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505 0 |a Cover; Gendered Anthropology; European Association of Social Anthropologists; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Uncomfortable Fields of Knowledge; A Divided Population: What is Good for Some is Irrelevant for Others; Genealogical Knowledge; Addressing Issues of Relevance to Ontemporary Society; The Problem of Distances; Inner Boundaries; Across Boundaries; Searching For Interpretations: Why the Contribution of Gender Studies is Ignored; Notes; 1: Is Sex to Gender as Race is to Ethnicity?; From Sex to Gender. 
505 8 |a From Race to Ethnicity and BackIs Sex to Gender as Race is to Ethnicity?; Gender, Race and Class; Notes; 2: The Study of Kinship; the Study of Person; A Study of Gender?; In the Beginning Was Kinship; Gendered Kinship?; Sacred Texts; From Kinship Studies to Person Studies; Sameness and Difference; Concluding Remarks; Notes; 3: The Illusion of Dualism in Samoa': Brothers-and-sisters' are not 'men-and-women'; The Frontier of the Sexes; Samoa; Gender; Two Levels; Different Examples; Same Questions; Conclusion; Notes. 
505 8 |a 4: Blood, Sperm, Soul and the Mountain: Gender Relations, Kinship and Cosmovision Among the Khumbo (n.e. Nepal)Prologue-'lucky Stars in the Sky, The Sun Shines Warm Upon the Earth'; The Khumbo; Kinship in Society And Cosmos; The Place of Kinship Within Society: Descent Versus Residence; Gender in Tibetan 'flesh and Bone' Kinship: Co-existence and Contradictions; Gender in Khumbo Society; What It Means to be a Khumbo Woman; The Generation of a Human Being: The Human Body as Language and Order; What is a Human Being, Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go To? 
505 8 |a The Generation of a Human Being: Sexual RelationsConception-body Interpretation and Social Affiliation; Pregnancy-a Critical Period for the 'soul'; Birth-a Natural Birth in the 'shadow' Beyond Society; Name Giving-a Social Birth; Summary: the Human Body as Language and Order for Gender Identity; The Language of The Body, of Social Order and of Transgression; Epilogue-how Lady Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal Escaped Her Suitors And Dedicated Herself To The Tantra and the Achievement of Mystic Insight; Notes; 5: Home Decoration as Popular Culture: Constructing Homes, Genders and Classes in Norway. 
505 8 |a The House as an Object of StudyThe House as A Key Symbol for Modern Intimacy; Historical Outline; Homes in Norway; 'ordinary People' in Bergen; Home Decoration as a Continuous Project; Home Decoration as Creativity; The Home as an Expressive Statement; The Search for 'wholeness' and 'closeness'; Constructing Genders; Constructing Classes; Conclusion; Notes; 6: Impure or Fertile?: Two Essays on the Crossing of Frontiers Through Anthropology and Feminism; I Women in the Field-reflections on a Never-endingjourney; Sabine Strasser and Ruth Kronsteiner; Fields of Power and Anxiety. 
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