Carved flesh/cast selves : gendered symbols and social practices / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due, Ingrid Rudie, and Tony Bleie.

Other author Broch-Due, Vigdis.
Other author Rudie, Ingrid.
Other author Bleie, Tone.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford [England] ; Providence, RI : BERG, 1993.
Descriptionxiii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies. --Congresses.
Sex differences (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies. --Congresses.

SeriesCross-cultural perspectives on women ; vol. 8
Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 8. ^A468544
Contents Carved flesh, cast selves: an introduction / Vigdis Broch-Due and Ingrid Rudie -- Making incomplete / Marily Strathern -- Making meaning out of matter: perceptions of sex, gender and bodies among the Turkana / Vigdis Broch-Due -- Transforming women into 'pure' agnates: aspects of female infibulation in Somalia / Aud Talle -- Encountering femininity: the ontogenesis of Bedamini male selves / Arve Sørum -- Marry the land, divorce the man: Quechua marriage and the problem of individual autonomy / Sarah Lund Skar -- A rotten text? Gender, food and interpretation / Jorun Solheim and Tordis Borchgrevink -- The ritual work of Malay marriage as a field of debate / Ingrid Rudie -- Malay dress symbolism / Kirsten Sandborg -- Ishq aur Mohabbat: ideas about love and friendship in a northern Pakistani community / Karin Ask -- 'I did not marry properly': the meaning of marriage payments in southern Mexico / Kari Siverts -- 'I want to buy me a baby!': some reflections on gender and change in modern society / Marit Melhuus -- Aspects of androgyny / Tone Bleie.
General notePapers based on a conference on the theme, Gender: Symbols and Social practices, held at the University of Bergen, 1988.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index.
LCCN 92002491
ISBN0854967257 (cloth)
ISBN0854968687 (paper)