| Description |
vii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; v.68 |
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Monographs on social anthropology ; v.68
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Peter Loizos and Patrick Heady -- 2. No substance, no kinship? Procreation, performativity and Temanambondro parent-child relations / Philip Thomas -- 3. Procreation theories and their implications: overcoming the absent father in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- 4. Making persons, marking differences: procreation beliefs in highland Bolivia / Andrew Canessa -- 5. Every infant is born with its 'younger sibling': childbirth and care among Amurang fishermen / Sini Cedercreutz -- 6. Women, work and procreation beliefs in two Muslim communities / Ildiko Beller-Hann -- 7. Procreation in Islam: a reading from Egypt of people and texts / Hania M. Sholkamy -- 8. The light of life: representations of procreation, divinity and property in Carnia and Anatolia / Patrick Heady -- 9. The essence of being: procreation and sexuality in mid-century Macedonia / Ilka Thiessen -- 10. Procreation metaphors in rural Greece: cultivating, bread-making, weaving / Theodore Paradellis |
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11. Procreation, patriarchy and medical science: the resistance to recognizing maternal contributions in European embryological thought / Julia Stonehouse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Monographs on social anthropology no:68 0077-1074 |
| Subject |
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Human reproduction -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Gender identity -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex symbolism.
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Human reproduction.
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Fertility, Human.
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Sex role.
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Anthropology, Cultural.
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Reproduction.
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Fertility.
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Gender Identity.
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Human Body.
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Sex.
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Symbolism.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Heady, Patrick.
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Loizos, Peter, 1937-2012.
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London School of Economics and Political Science.
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| LC no. |
99014803 |
| ISBN |
0485195682 |
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