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Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity by Professor David D. Gilmore (1990-03-11) Hardcover – January 1, 1656

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B019NELP02
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; 1st Printing edition (1990-03-11) (January 1, 1656)

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G-smith

Great cross-cultural investigation of masculinity

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2016

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I thought this was a great book to read about the fundamentals of how masculinity developed. It covers modern and prehistoric cultures, and greatly influenced my perspective of masculinity. I give it 5 stars due to its content, which overshadows a couple of objections:

- I needed to keep a laptop nearby to lookup many esoteric words in the book.
- I wish it went further into determining if masculinity exists due to the cultural environment, or vise versa: masculinity created the cultural environment to sustain it. It seems to be a chicken and egg problem.

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Jacob Stewart

Great Book for the Up and Coming Man of Tomorrow

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016

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For a while now, as a young man growing up, I pondered "what does it mean to be a man?". As far as I've read, this is a great book. It explains how cultures across the world who have never heard of one another have very similar rites of passages for young boys to be considered men.

If you are a man who wants to understand how we as men naturally expect strength, bravery, and honor from one another, read this book.

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A. Nalicat

Wow the different cultures

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2003

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I used this book for my Culture Anthropology report and this subject was certainly intense. I felt this book was very comprehensive and graphic in its discription of male cultural concepts.

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Peter Gray

What makes a man?

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2000

This book explores the ways in which manhood is defined. It does so by investigating a series of fascinating case studies. To take but two of these, we see that the Truk of Micronesia have a pattern of adolescent drinking and brawling that can be seen as both a holdover of a more bellicose past and a stage through which to pass into marital and parental life; furthermore, we find that Tahitian manhood is subdued, probably reflecting the relative ease and cooperative nature of their subsistence basis (fishing and agriculture) as well as an absence of intergroup aggression. The ways by which males achieve status across cultural contexts vary with respect to the social and ecological conditions faced by a given society. Where warfare prevails, for example, a society's warriors earn high status, and are typically favored by women as mates. Common to many societies, men must "impregnate women, protect dependents from danger, and provision kith and kin (p. 223)." Such provocative conclusions, attention to ethnographic detail and clear writing make this a book difficult to put down. The main drawback rests with some of the interpretation of the cultural and universal patterns of manhood. The Freudian interpretations commonly make little sense and the group selection arguments need re-couching in terms of individual selection; otherwise, most interpretations seem sensible. Overall, this book does a great job of addressing manhood in the making.

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algo41

Of some interest.

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2004

Most of the book consists of Gilmore's summary of anthropological studies of "primitive" cultures, and these accounts are reasonably interesting in themselves, and good background for readers interested in subjects like evolutionary psychology. I respect the author as being objective. I also accept his conclusion, that most of the traditional values associated with manhood had their genesis in the needs of society, e.g. for protection. I presume he writes about the Mediterranean ideals of machismo (in one of the less interesting chapters) rather than Middle Eastern ideals because he was more comfortable with them, but it does not take a feminist to believe some of the concepts of manhood were used to oppress women. Gilmore does not sufficiently distinguish between the origin of values, and their functionality within changed environments, or between the core values and their subsequent distortion. Most provocative were the two studies of cultures in which all the "normal" concepts of manhood are lacking: does this really show there is no genetic basis for gender differences, or that neither genetics or environment by itself determines behavior?

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Aidan

in good condition, better then i thought it was going ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2014

got it, in good condition, better then i thought it was going to be.

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James L. Park

ANTHROPOLOGY STUDIES HOW MEN DEVELOP IN PRIMITIVE TRIBES

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2010

David D. Gilmore
Manhood in the Making:
Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

(New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1990) 258 pages

Conventional manhood as found in several primitive tribes:
warrior, food-gatherer, big-talker, etc.
Each culture has definite ideas and means for creating 'masculinity'.

If you would like to know about better books on 'masculinity',
search the Internet for the following bibliography:
"Best Books on Gender-Personality".

James Leonard Park, creator of the Gender-Pattern Chart.

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Carlos Vázquez

Buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on April 26, 2019

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Terminamos este libro, recomendado por Art of Manliness
Es un trabajo de erudición acerca de la masculinidad en todo el mundo, encontrando que la masculinidad no es un fenómeno determinado por la cultura o las normas sociales, sino algo compartido por todas las culturas en todo el mundo, presentes y pasadas.
Es un libro académico, pero de fácil lectura. Aunque en las últimas páginas me aburrió un poco y me fui más rápido 😂
Buen libro.

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Maxime Lacoste

Excellent book to learn how men live everywhere in the ...

Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2015

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Excellent book to learn how men live everywhere in the world. I learn a lot about my self by seeing other man from completely different background facing the same challenges. Very well written, but it's a sociology book. You buy this book to get informed not for fun. Perfect book for everyone who wants to learn about masculinity.

digit7

must buy, must have

Reviewed in France on May 28, 2013

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arrived on time and in good condition. would purchase again from seller. good for those interested in the major causes of the social problems of certain so-called ethnic groups and for those seriously interested in solving problems

D.Hudson

Representations of men

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2013

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This famous book is a breakdown of what society perceives to be as 'man', unlike many, i viewed this book to help me expand my knowledge on this subject for media studies allowing me relate some of gilmore's theories to different media text's. In this respect then the book was helpful, but not all of it relevant, hence the rating it has received.

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