Nancy Lutkehaus / Paul Roscoe (eds.)

Gender Rituals

Female Initiation in Melanesia
Herausgeber: Lutkehaus, Nancy; Roscoe, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415911078
• ISBN-10: 0415911079
• Artikelnr.: 21596048

Autorenporträt

Edited by Lutkehaus, Nancy; Roscoe, Paul

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia, Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Part 2 Defining Women: Gender Images in Female Initiation Rites
Chapter 2 Puberty Rites, Women's Naven, and Initiation, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
Chapter 3 In the Shadow of the Tambaran, Paul B. Roscoe
Part 3 Achieving Womanhood: The Life Cycle as Cultural Performance
Chapter 4 Achieving Womanhood and the Achievements of Women in Murik Society, Kathleen Barlow
Chapter 5 Transforming Women, Deane Fergie
Chapter 6 Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Ritual, Thomas Maschio
Part 4 The Female Body and Life-Cycle Rites as Metaphor
Chapter 7 The Washed and the Unwashed, Patricia K. Townsend
Chapter 8 Gender Metaphors, Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Chapter 9 Marriage as the Model for a New Initiation Ritual, Lorraine Sexton
Part 5 Conclusion
Chapter 10 "Initiation" in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Paul B. Roscoe