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Informationen zum Autor Caroline B. Brettell is The Ruth Collins Altshuler Endowed Professor and Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute at Southern Methodist University, USA. Carolyn F. Sargent is Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Klappentext This carefully crafted volume introduces anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. It combines theoretically and ethnographically-based essays in order to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. The articles, both classic and contemporary, are drawn from all fields of anthropology and cover a wide variety of cultures. The seventh edition contains 12 new entries that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including topics such as transnationalism and transgender. With additional features to support teaching and learning, including discussion questions, this is an essential resource for students encountering anthropology of gender for the first time. Zusammenfassung This carefully crafted volume introduces anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. It combines theoretically and ethnographically based essays in order to examine gender roles and ideology around the world. Divided thematically into 11 sections, the editors open each section with a succinct introduction to the principal issues. The articles themselves, both classic and contemporary, are drawn from all fields of anthropology and cover a wide variety of cultures. The seventh edition contains 11 new entries that reflect more recent developments in the discipline, including topics such as gender identity, transnationalism and female genital cutting. Additional features to support teaching and learning that are new to this edition include a film list and discussion questions at the end of each entry. This is an essential resource for students encountering the anthropology of gender for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Animal Models and Gender 2. Lifeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil 3. The Cultural Nexus of Aka Father–Infant Bonding 4. Difference Matters: Embodiment and Discourse on Difference in an Urban Public High School 5. The Past Is a Foreign Country: Archaeology of Sex and Gender 6. The Fashioning of Women 7. Inca Gender Relations, from Household to Empire 8. The Domestic Sphere of Women and the Public World of Men: The Strengths and Limitations of an Anthropological Dichotomy 9. From “Private” Affairs to “Public” Scandals: The Modern Woman’s Challenge to Husband’s Infidelities in Uganda 10. Downsizing Masculinity: Gender, Family and Fatherhood in Post-Industrial America 11. Marriage, Modernity, and Migration: Changing Dynamics of Intimacy in a Mexican Transnational Community 12. Woman the Hunter: The Agta 13. Gender, Horticulture, and the Division of Labor on Vanatinai 14. Ethnographic Empathy and the Social Context of Rights: “Rescuing” Maasai Girls from Early Marriage 15. Gender, Business, and Space Control: Yoruba Market Women and Power 16. My Encounter with Machismo in Spain 17. Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea 18. Surgical Transformations in the Pursuit of Gender 19. “Now I Gotta Watch What I Say”: Shifting Constructions of Masculinity in Discourse 20. One of the Guys: Military Women Paradoxical Individuality and the Transformation of the Argentine Army 21. Is There a Muslim Sexuality? Changing Constructions of Sexuality in Egyptian Bedouin Wedd...
