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Those Who Play With Fire
Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa

English · Hardback

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Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world


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Assisted by Moore Henrietta (Editor), Sanders Todd (Editor), Kaare Bwire (Editor), Bwire Kaare (Editor), Henrietta Moore (Editor), Todd Sanders (Editor)
Publisher Routledge
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 01.01.1999
Subject Humanities, art, music > History
 
EAN 9780485195699
ISBN 978-0-485-19569-9
Pages 322
Dimensions (packing) 14.5 x 22.2 x 2.1 cm
Weight (packing) 538 g
 
Subjects Cultural Studies, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, East Africa, Southern Africa, Gender studies, gender groups, gender ideology, symbolic anthropology, ethnographic case studies, social transformation Africa, fertility rites, African ritual studies, ritual gender symbolism research
 

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