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Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread image of a universal "menstrual taboo" as well as the common assumption of universal female subordination which underlies it. Contributing important new material and perspectives to our understanding of comparative gender politics and symbolism, it is of particular importance to those interested in anthropology, women's studies, religion, and comparative health systems.
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"Sets the stage for an ethnography of menstruation beliefs and will, I predict, be viewed as the opening work of a whole ethnographic tradition . . . will be widely cited."--Anna Meigs, Macalester College
"Provides a concise and complete critique of the literature and thinking on menstrual practices and introduces new analyses and concepts with regard to previously unknown material."--Ann L. Wright, University of Arizona
Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread image of a universal "menstrual taboo" as well as the common assumption of universal female subordination which underlies it. Contributing important new material and perspectives to our understanding of comparative gender politics and symbolism, it is of particular importance to those interested in anthropology, women's studies, religion, and comparative health systems.
From the Inside Flap
"Sets the stage for an ethnography of menstruation beliefs and will, I predict, be viewed as the opening work of a whole ethnographic tradition . . . will be widely cited."--Anna Meigs, Macalester College
"Provides a concise and complete critique of the literature and thinking on menstrual practices and introduces new analyses and concepts with regard to previously unknown material."--Ann L. Wright, University of Arizona
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The topic of menstruation has long been a staple of anthropology, for this apparently ordinary biological event has been subject to extraordinary symbolic elaboration in a wide variety of cultures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
menstrual meanings, menstrual shelters, received ethnographies, menstrual customs, menstrual sex, hormonal onslaught, menstrual symbolism, menstruous women, menstrual practices, menstrual taboos, forest fertility, lunar timing, menstrual seclusion, menstrual synchrony, menstrual pollution, menstrual contamination, pollution theory, rainbow snake, eating food cooked, gender symmetry, concerning menstruation, menopausal depression, menstruating woman, women menstruate, menstruating women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vila Branca, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Mary Douglas, Aboriginal Australia, Arnhem Land, Master of the Earth, South Wales, Menstrual Images, Australian Aboriginal, United States, Doctor Dalton, Earth Day New!
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The topic of menstruation has long been a staple of anthropology, for this apparently ordinary biological event has been subject to extraordinary symbolic elaboration in a wide variety of cultures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
menstrual meanings, menstrual shelters, received ethnographies, menstrual customs, menstrual sex, hormonal onslaught, menstrual symbolism, menstruous women, menstrual practices, menstrual taboos, forest fertility, lunar timing, menstrual seclusion, menstrual synchrony, menstrual pollution, menstrual contamination, pollution theory, rainbow snake, eating food cooked, gender symmetry, concerning menstruation, menopausal depression, menstruating woman, women menstruate, menstruating women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vila Branca, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Mary Douglas, Aboriginal Australia, Arnhem Land, Master of the Earth, South Wales, Menstrual Images, Australian Aboriginal, United States, Doctor Dalton, Earth Day New!
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- The Australian Aborigines: A Portrait of Their Society (Pelican) by Kenneth Maddock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Natural History by George I., Jr. Myers in Back Matter
- Garden City: Past, present and future (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment, No 15) by Stephen Ward in Back Matter
- New Mexico (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson in Back Matter
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- Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender by Peggy Reeves Sanday on 4 pages
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- Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania by Denise Allen on 4 pages
- Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts Within Clinical Settings by John A. Rush in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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