Reason and Passion - Representations of Gender in a Malay Society

"This book mixes aspects of 'old' and 'new' ethnography to powerful and persuasive effect: It is ethnographically rich, modestly (and appropriately) reflexive, and framed within a broad range of contemporary theoretical issues concerning gender and beyond. It is a pleasure to read, and will be enormously valuable (and important) for teaching as well."—Sherry Ortner, University of California, Berkeley

"This is the single best study of gender and culture that I know, whether in Southeast Asia or elsewhere."—Robert Hefner, editor of Conversion to Christianity

About the author

Michael G. Peletz is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Colgate University. He is the author of A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau (California, 1988) and coeditor of Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (California, 1995).

Product details

• Authors: Michael G. Peletz, Peletz Michael G.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2022
• EAN: 9780520326866
• ISBN: 978-0-520-32686-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Malaysia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups