African ritual studies
African's ethnography
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Chisungu Ceremony
Cucumber Seeds
Diverse Dance Forms
Earth Spirits
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ethnographic case studies
Fact Technological Systems
fertility rites
Gender Complementarity
gender ideology
gender symbolism
Gendered Grandchildren
Ivory Coast
Knowledge Acquisition
Leather Skirt
Life Crisis Rituals
Luc De Heusch
Married Women
Mbulu Districts
Menarcheal Girl
Pollution Beliefs
Puberty Initiation
Puff Adder
ritual gender symbolism research
Social Reproduction
social transformation
social transformation Africa
Stiff Porridge
symbolic anthropology
Symbolic Fusion
Uterine Kin
Vice Versa
Xam Informant
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780485195699
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1999
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: 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. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational gender categories permeate African systems of thought and ritual practices. Thus, the book provides a powerful framework with which to evaluate previous ethnographic material on Africa. In addition, Those Who Play With Fire presents a broad range of new case studies - of hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists and pastoralists - revealing the varied and complex ways in which African ideas and ideals of what it means to be 'male' and 'female' broadly inform and give meaning to a wide range of transformative rituals.
Henrietta L. Moore is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Gender Institute and Todd Sanders is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, both at the London School of Economics. Bwire Kaare is Lecturer in the Institute of Finance Management, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
