| Description |
xiii, 297 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; vol. 8 |
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Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 8
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| Contents |
Preface / Vigdis Broch-Due, Ingrid Rudie and Tone Bleie -- 1. Carved Flesh - Cast Selves: An Introduction / Vigdis Broch-Due and Ingrid Rudie -- 2. Making Incomplete / Marilyn Strathern -- 3. Making Meaning Out of Matter: Perceptions of Sex, Gender and Bodies among the Turkana / Vigdis Broch-Due -- 4. Transforming Women into 'Pure' Agnates: Aspects of Female Infibulation in Somalia / Aud Talle -- 5. Encountering Femininity: The Ontogenesis of Bedamini Male Selves / Arve Sorum -- 6. Marry the Land, Divorce the Man: Quechua Marriage and the Problem of Individual Autonomy / Sarah Lund Skar -- 7. A Rotten Text? Gender, Food and Interpretation / Jorun Solheim and Tordis Borchgrevink -- 8. The Ritual Work of Malay Marriage as a Field of Debate / Ingrid Rudie -- 9. Malay Dress Symbolism / Kirsten Sandborg -- 10. Ishq aur Mohabbat: Ideas about Love and Friendship in a Northern Pakistani Community / Karin Ask |
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11. 'I did not marry properly': The Meaning of Marriage Payments in Southern Mexico / Kari Siverts -- 12. 'I want to buy me a baby!': Some Reflections on Gender and Change in Modern Society / Marit Melhuus -- 13. Aspects of Androgyny / Tone Bleie -- 14. Epilogue / Henrietta Moore |
| Analysis |
Sex roles |
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Sex roles |
| Notes |
Papers based on a conference on the theme, Gender: Symbols and Social practices, held at the University of Bergen, 1988 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index |
| Subject |
Sex differences (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Sex differences (Psychology) -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Bleie, Tone.
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Broch-Due, Vigdis.
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Rudie, Ingrid.
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| LC no. |
92002491 |
| ISBN |
0854967257 (cloth) |
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0854968687 (paper) |
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