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Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia : an exploration of the comparative method / edited by Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Amazon River Region.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Melanesia.
- Gender identity--Amazon River Region.
- Gender identity.
- Gender identity--Melanesia.
- Sex differences.
- Kinship--Amazon River Region.
- Kinship.
- Kinship--Melanesia.
- Amazon River Region--Social life and customs.
- Amazon River Region.
- Melanesia--Social life and customs.
- Melanesia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. Comparing Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: A Theoretical Orientation
- 2. Two Forms of Masculine Ritualized Rebirth: The Melanesian Body and the Amazonian Cosmos
- 3. The Variety of Fertility Cultism in Amazonia: A Closer Look at Gender Symbolism in Northwestern Amazonia
- 4. Reproducing Inequality: The Gender Politics of Male Cults in the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Amazonia
- 5. The Genres of Gender: Local Models and Global Paradigms in the Comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia
- 6. Age-Based Genders among the Kayapo
- 7. Women's Blood, Warriors' Blood, and the Conquest of Vitality in Amazonia
- 8. Damming the Rivers of Milk? Fertility, Sexuality, and Modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia
- 9. Worlds Overturned: Gender-Inflected Religious Movements in Melanesia and the Amazon
- 10. Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Relations: Some Internal Comparisons
- 11. The Gender of Some Amazonian Gifts: An Experiment with an Experiment
- 12. "Strength" and Sexuality: Sexual Avoidance and Masculinity in New Guinea and Amazonia
- 13. The Anguish of Gender: Men's Cults and Moral Contradiction in Amazonia and Melanesia
- 14. Reflections on the Land of Melazonia
- References
- Contributors
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-376) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612762482
- 9780520935815
- 0520935810
- 9781597346306
- 1597346306
- 9781282762480
- 1282762486
- OCLC:
- 475929551
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