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Those Who Play With Fire
Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
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eBook - ePub
Those Who Play With Fire
Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa
About this book
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 'male' and 'female' broadly inform and give meaning to a wide range of transformative rituals.
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INDEX
Adam, V., 60,68,72, 74(7n), 76
Addresses: ancestral, 54-69,72-3
Ageing, 256-7,263-4,274
Agency, gendered, 24-8,187-280
Agnatic kinship, 4; the Turkana, 154,161,169, 111, see also Patriarchy/patrilineage
Agriculture, 14,16-18, 284; the Akie, 139; the Chewa, 95; the Ihanzu, 47—9; the Iraqw, 34; the Pogoro, 255,257-8,259; the Turkana, 163
Ahho, Chief Michael (Iraqw), 232-4
Akie, the, 133-50
Akuij (deity), 153, 160,167-71, 174-7; Akai (skeleton), 164,168; Mother Ito/Father Apa, 169
Aluund, the, 19,22,26
Ancestors, 189-90,215-16,284, 290; the Akie, 140,143,149; the Ihanzu, 45-7, 50-73; the Iraqw, 228-9; the Pogoro, 260-1, see also Spirit world
Androgyny, 19-26,101,120-4, 287-90; the Datooga, 203; the Turkana, 162,168-9, 171—6, see also Role reversals; Transvestism
Animal sacrifice, 52-4; the Chewa, 90; the Datooga, 191,206-7, 213-14; the Ihanzu, 52—4; the Iraqw, 229; the Khoisan, 117; the Pogoro, 270-1; the Turkana, 172
Animals, domestic, 202, see also livestock
Animals, mythical, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- PARTI INTRODUCTION
- PART II RITUAL SYMBOLS: PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVES
- PART III GENDER, FERTILITY AND SOCIAL AGENCY
- PART IV AFTERWORD
- Index