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A 1st ed. very good+ hardcover (cloth-bound) with very good DJ, book & text near fine, FON. 310p. 22x14,5cm. 600gr. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, Volume 69. Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational gender categories permeate African systems of thought and ritual practices. Thus, the book provides a powerful framework with which to evaluate previous ethnographic material on Africa. In addition, Those Who Play With Fire presents a broad range of new case studies - of hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists and pastoralists - revealing the varied and complex ways in which African ideas and ideals of what it means to be…
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Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa Hardcover - 1999
by Henrietta Moore (Editor); Todd Sanders (Editor); Bwire Kaare (Editor)
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- Title Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
- Author Henrietta Moore (Editor); Todd Sanders (Editor); Bwire Kaare (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1Ș edicion.
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, LONDON
- Date February 1, 1999
- ISBN 9780485195699 / 0485195690
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.44 x 1.24 in (21.59 x 13.82 x 3.15 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Africa, Southern - Social life and customs, Africa, Eastern - Social life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99012208
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.096
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