TY - BOOK ID - 7765394 TI - Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia AU - Gregor, Thomas AU - Tuzin, Donald F PY - 2001 SN - 0520935810 9786612762482 1597346306 1282762486 9780520935815 9780520228511 0520228510 9780520228528 0520228529 9781597346306 6612762489 9781282762480 0520228510 0520228529 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Amazon River Region. KW - Gender identity - Amazon River Region. KW - Kinship. KW - Melanesia. KW - Sex role-- Amazon River Region. KW - Amazon River Region KW - Melanesia KW - Social life and customs. KW - Sex role KW - Gender identity KW - Sex differences. KW - Kinship KW - Gender differences KW - Sexual dimorphism in humans KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Gender role KW - Amazonia KW - Ethnology KW - Clans KW - Consanguinity KW - Families KW - Kin recognition KW - Sex differentiation KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Oceania KW - Sex differences KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - #SBIB:39A71 KW - #SBIB:39A74 KW - #SBIB:39A76 KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Etnografie: comparatieve studies KW - Etnografie: Amerika KW - Etnografie: Oceaniƫ KW - Social life and customs KW - Sex role - Amazon River Region KW - Sex role - Melanesia KW - Gender identity - Amazon River Region KW - Gender identity - Melanesia KW - Kinship - Amazon River Region KW - Kinship - Melanesia KW - Amazon River Region - Social life and customs KW - Melanesia - Social life and customs KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles KW - Gender dysphoria KW - academic. KW - amazon. KW - amazonia. KW - comparative gender. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural studies. KW - cultural. KW - feminine. KW - gender identity. KW - gender issues. KW - gender roles. KW - gender studies. KW - gender. KW - health and wellness. KW - human sexuality. KW - identity. KW - lgbtq. KW - masculine. KW - political. KW - scholarly. KW - sexuality. KW - social history. KW - social studies. KW - women and gender studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7765394 AB - One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the core of religion, symbolism, and cosmology, and they permeate ideas about body imagery, procreation, growth, men's cults, and rituals of initiation. The contributors to this innovative volume illuminate the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways of Melanesia and Amazonia the authors expand the study of gender, as well as the comparative method in anthropology, in new and rewarding directions. ER -