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

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

Product details

• 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