ABSTRACT

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the "war between the sexes". It deals with the politics of large state-sized units and conflict in the form of overt war between Indians and colonial powers.

chapter 1|19 pages

Gender Totemism

ByJudith Shapiro

chapter 3|19 pages

Oedipus in the Political Economy: Theme and Variations in Amazonia

ByOrna R. Johnson, Allen Johnson

chapter 4|10 pages

Sexual Antagonism and Play in Mundurucu Society: The Fun is in the Chase

ByS. Brian Burkhalter

chapter 5|13 pages

Some Considerations of Myth and Gender in a Northwest Amazon Society

ByJanet M. Chernela

chapter 7|45 pages

Histrionics in Culture

ByC. Daniel Levy

chapter 8|19 pages

War and the Sexes in Amazonia

ByR. Brian Ferguson

chapter 9|15 pages

The Ka apor Indian Wars of Lower Amazonia, Ca. 1825-1928

ByWilliam Balée

chapter 10|9 pages

Invisible People: Ostracism in Cashinahua Society

ByKenneth M. Kensinger

chapter 11|16 pages

Conflict, Contradiction, and the Study of Religion

BySeth Leacock

chapter 12|16 pages

Female Circumcision in Africa: The Dialectics of Equality

ByElliott P. Skinner

chapter 13|13 pages

Abiding Women: Sexuality and Control in Modern Teso

ByJoan Vincent

chapter 15|20 pages

Family, Religion and State: Middle Eastern Models

BySuad Joseph

chapter 16|13 pages

The Beni Meklaab over the Horizon: Males and Females, Dogs and Bedouin

ByRichard R. Randolph

chapter 18|23 pages

Moulay Abedsalem: An Ethnographic Fiction

ByVincent Crapanzano