For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when they insist that rain rites and the gender and sexual motifs in them do not symbolize anything but rather aim simply to bring rain?
Beyond Bodies examines Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites. It considers the meaning of ritual practices in a society in which gender is not as bound to the body as it is in the Euro-American imagination. Engaging with recent anthropological and gender theory, this book crucially calls into question how social scientists have explained gender symbolism in myriad ethnographic and historical studies across Africa.
發表於2025-01-04
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在國圖的落日餘暉中讀的這本書,兩個下午,舒適的溫度讓我幾度睡去,用僅有的一絲清醒堅持著讀完瞭。 此書讓我感受最大的是它將Ihanzu人對性彆的認知撇除瞭以往容易引起的關於象徵等的傳統討論,而是迴歸到事情本真,他們僅僅是想讓老天爺下雨。儀式裏麵關於性彆的展現打破瞭...
評分在國圖的落日餘暉中讀的這本書,兩個下午,舒適的溫度讓我幾度睡去,用僅有的一絲清醒堅持著讀完瞭。 此書讓我感受最大的是它將Ihanzu人對性彆的認知撇除瞭以往容易引起的關於象徵等的傳統討論,而是迴歸到事情本真,他們僅僅是想讓老天爺下雨。儀式裏麵關於性彆的展現打破瞭...
評分在國圖的落日餘暉中讀的這本書,兩個下午,舒適的溫度讓我幾度睡去,用僅有的一絲清醒堅持著讀完瞭。 此書讓我感受最大的是它將Ihanzu人對性彆的認知撇除瞭以往容易引起的關於象徵等的傳統討論,而是迴歸到事情本真,他們僅僅是想讓老天爺下雨。儀式裏麵關於性彆的展現打破瞭...
評分在國圖的落日餘暉中讀的這本書,兩個下午,舒適的溫度讓我幾度睡去,用僅有的一絲清醒堅持著讀完瞭。 此書讓我感受最大的是它將Ihanzu人對性彆的認知撇除瞭以往容易引起的關於象徵等的傳統討論,而是迴歸到事情本真,他們僅僅是想讓老天爺下雨。儀式裏麵關於性彆的展現打破瞭...
評分在國圖的落日餘暉中讀的這本書,兩個下午,舒適的溫度讓我幾度睡去,用僅有的一絲清醒堅持著讀完瞭。 此書讓我感受最大的是它將Ihanzu人對性彆的認知撇除瞭以往容易引起的關於象徵等的傳統討論,而是迴歸到事情本真,他們僅僅是想讓老天爺下雨。儀式裏麵關於性彆的展現打破瞭...
圖書標籤: 人類學 gender anthropology
Beyond Bodies 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載