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One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable
parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of
Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world
in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures
nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and
gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences
infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the core
of religion, symbolism, and cosmology, and they permeate ideas
about body imagery, procreation, growth, men's cults, and rituals
of initiation.
The contributors to this innovative volume illuminate the various
ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and
internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire
cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways
of Melanesia and Amazonia the authors expand the study of gender,
as well as the comparative method in anthropology, in new and
rewarding directions.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1980.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1980.
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