A01=Cecilia Busby
anthropology of gender
Author_Cecilia Busby
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Chitties
Confer
Cross Cousin
cultural theory
Cuttlefish
Dravidian Kinship
embodiment
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Female Substance
Fish Curry
Fish Sellers
Fish Vending
Fishing Community
gender relations
gender roles in Indian fishing communities
Good Fisherman
kinship systems
Married Women
Men Fish
Mother's Brother's Children
Mother's Sister's Children
Mother's Sister's Son
Natal Household
Performative Differences
performativity
Sea Water
Sex Siblings
social theory
South Asian studies
South Indian fishing community
Tamil Nadu
Trivandrum District
Vice Versa
Wo
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780485196719
- Weight: 352g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. A detailed and evocotive account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community reveals new ways of framing gender relations, the body and kinship. The ethnographic account is set within the context of social and cultural theory, notably the ideas of Judith Butler, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. The study sheds new light on the ways in which gender is understood as both performative, that is enacted through everyday practices, and also substantial and embodied, that is marked out in the separate sexual fluids and procreative capacities of husbands and wives.
Cecilia Busby is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College.
