When Men Are Women: Manhood Among the Gabra Nomads of East Africa Tapa blanda - 1999 - 1st Edición
de John Colman Wood
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IN THIS FASCINATING EXPLORATION of the cultural models of manhood, When Men Are Women examines the world of nomadic Gabra people, a camel-herding society in East Africa. Gabra men denigrate women and feminine things, yet regard their most prestigious men as women. In Gabra society all men eventually become d'abella, or ritual experts with feminine identities. A d'abella does not look or act like an ordinary woman, but in many significant ways "he" is a "she": the d'abella is said, in prayers and blessings, to "give birth" to Gabra tradition, and since this tradition is given credit for both rain and fertility, the d'abella gives birth to life itself.
Wood's study draws from structuralism and psychoanalytic theory to probe the meaning, role, and significance of gender in Gabra society. When Men Are Women provides a multifaceted view of gender as a cultural construction independent of sex, but nevertheless fundamentally related to it. By turning men into women, Gabra confront the dilemmas and ambiguities of nomadic life. The Gabra provide illuminating insight into our own culture's understanding of gender and its function in society.
Detalles
- Título When Men Are Women: Manhood Among the Gabra Nomads of East Africa
- Autor John Colman Wood
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 256
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Wisconsin Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación November 1999
- ISBN 9780299165949 / 0299165949
- Peso 0.77 libras (0.35 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.08 x 6.02 x 0.57 pulgadas (23.06 x 15.29 x 1.45 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: East Africa
- Ethnic Orientation: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Library of Congress subjects Symbolism, Polarity
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 99006427
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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