ABSTRACT

In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology.
Gendered Anthropology will be of particular value to undergraduates and lecturers in social anthropology and gender studies.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 4|34 pages

The illusion of dualism in Samoa

‘Brothers-and-sisters' are not ‘men-and-women’

chapter 5|40 pages

Blood, sperm, soul and the mountain

Gender relations, kinship and cosmovision among the Khumbo (N.E. Nepal)

chapter 6|34 pages

Home decoration as popular culture

Constructing homes, genders and classes in Norway 1

chapter 7|31 pages

Impure or fertile?

Two essays on the crossing of frontiers through anthropology and feminism