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Accusational Patterns
africa
African ethnography
ancestral
Ancestral Ghosts
Ancestral Powers
Attentiondeficit Disorder
Author_Suzette Heald
Avoidance Relationships
Bantu Speaking Peoples
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circumcision
Colonial Administration
Conjugal Bond
Conjugal Sexuality
east
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Existential Level
gisu
Gisu Circumcision
Gisu Society
Glans Penis
Good Life
kinship systems
Lineage Cleavage
male
Male Circumcision
male initiation practices in Uganda
masculinity studies
Mount Elgon
Opposite Sex
Patrilateral Parallel Cousins
Pit Men
powers
process
Proximate Generations
Radcliffe Brown's Theory
ritual
ritual violence
society
vernacular psychology
Verse Line
witchcraft beliefs
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415185783
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understanding masculinity and violence in general'- David Parkin, Professor of Anthropology, Cambridge University Manhood and Morality explores issues of male identity among the Gisu of Uganda and the moral dilemma faced by men who define themselves by their capacity for violence. Drawing extensively on twenty years of fieldwork and on psychological theory the book covers: circumcision
Oedipal feelings
witchcraft
deviance
joking
sexuality
and ethnicity.
This ethnographic study challenges our preconceptions of manhood, especially African virility, inviting a wider re-evaluation of masculinity.
Suzette Heald is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Lancaster and is currently teaching at the University of Botswana.
