Beyond Bodies : : Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania /

Beyond Bodies : : Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania / / Todd Sanders.

For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and t...

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Sanders, Todd,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2008
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anthropological Horizons
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Language and Orthography
  • Introduction: Rainmaking, Gender Epistemologies, and Explanation
  • 1. Ihanzu Everyday Worlds
  • 2. The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns
  • 3. Gendered Life-Worlds and Transformative Processes
  • 4. Annual Rain Rites
  • 5. (Wo)men Behaving Badly: Genders within Bodies
  • 6. Ancestral Rain Offerings: Genders without Bodies
  • 7. Witchcraft, Gender, and Inversion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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