Gender Rituals
Download or Read eBook Gender Rituals PDF written by Nancy Lutkehaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Nancy Lutkehaus |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781136657351 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1136657355 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gender Rituals by : Nancy Lutkehaus
Book excerpt: This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.
