Description |
x, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction : Accounting for sexual meanings / Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead -- The gender revolution and the transition from bisexual horde to patrilocal band : the origins of gender hierarchy / Salvatore Cucchiari -- The bow and burden strap : a new look at institutionalized homosexuality in native North America / Harriet Whitehead -- Transforming "natural" women : female ritual leaders and gender ideology among Bimin-Kukusmin / Fitz J.P. Poole -- Self-interest and the social good : some implications of Hagen gender imagery / Marilyn Strathern -- Sexuality and gender in Samoa : conceptions and missed conceptions / Bradd Shore -- Like wounded stags : male sexual ideology in an Andalusian town / Stanley Brandes -- Pigs, women, and the men's house in Amazonia : an analysis of six MundurucĂș myths / Leslee Nadelson -- Politics and gender in simple societies / Jane F. Collier and Michelle Z. Rosaldo -- Women, warriors, and patriarchs / Melissa Llewelyn-Davies -- Gender and sexuality in hierarchical societies : the case of Polynesia and some comparative inplications / Sherry B. Ortner |
Analysis |
Man Sexes Cultural aspects |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
Subject |
Sex role.
|
|
Sex symbolism.
|
|
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
|
|
Identification (Psychology)
|
|
Sex.
|
|
Social Behavior.
|
|
Symbolism.
|
Author |
Ortner, Sherry B., 1941-
|
|
Whitehead, Harriet.
|
LC no. |
80026655 |
ISBN |
0521239656 |
|
0521283752 (paperback) |
|