Indigenous religions / edited by Stephen Hunt
- Bib ID:
- 5738491
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010
- xxviii, 502 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780754629603
- 0754629600
- Series:
- Library of essays on sexuality and religion.
- Summary:
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Collection of previously published essays.
- Full contents:
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- The timing and role of initiation rites in preparing young people for adolescence and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour in Malawi / Alister C. Munthali and Eliya M. Zulu
- Coming of age in Samoa and Nebraska / David Weisberg
- Learning the facts of life : past and present experiences in a rural Tanzanian community / Denise Roth Allen
- Growing yams and men : an interpretation of Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior / J. Patrick Gray
- Liminal meanings : sexually charged Giriama funerary ritual and unsettled participant frameworks / Janet McIntosh
- Perversion of power, witchcraft and the sexuality of evil in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus
- Witchcraft and the exchange of sex, blood, and money among Africans in Cape Town, South Africa / Erik Bähre
- Broken Calabashes and covenants of fruitfulness : cursing barrenness and contemporary African Christianity / J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
- Male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil / Peter Fry
- Women heal women : spirit possession and sexual segregation in a Muslim society / Pamela Constantinides
- Manhood, warriorhood and sex in eastern Africa : perspectives from the 19th and 20th centuries / Dent Ocaya-Lakidi
- Sex, food and female power : discussion of data material from northern Mozambique / Signe Arnfred
- Heteronormativity and the deflection of male same-sex attraction among the Pitjantjatjara people of Australia's Western Desert / Jon Willis
- Sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes : the case of cross-gendered females
- Queer Nahuatl : Sahagún's faggots and sodomites, lesbians and hermaphrodites / Pete Sigal
- Sexuality and cargo cults : the politics of gender and procreation in West New Britain / Andrew Lattas
- Myth, pilgrimage and fascination in the Aiyappa cult : a view from field work in Tamil Nadu / Lars Kjaerholm
- Reclaiming the past to inform the future : contemporary views of Maori sexuality / Clive Aspin and Jessica Hutchings
- That monster of nature : gender, sexuality, and the medicalization of a hermaphrodite in late colonial Guatemala / Martha Few
- The sins of the fathers : Franciscan friars, parish priests and the sexual conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1808 / John F. Chuchiak.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hunt, Stephen, 1954-
- Copyright:
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