1st Edition

Gender and Sociality in Amazonia How Real People Are Made

By Cecilia McCallum Copyright 2001
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first book to focus directly on gender in Amazonia for nearly thirty years. Research on gender and sexual identity has become central to social science during that time, but studies have concentrated on other places and people, leaving the gendered experiences of indigenous Amazonians relatively unexplored. McCallum explores little-known aspects of the day-to-day lives of Amazonian... Read more

Introduction, 1 Kinship And The Child, 2 Creating Gender, 3 Producing Sociality, 4 Consumptive Production, 5 Making Community, 6 Ritual and Regeneration, 7 Gender and Sociality

Biography

Cecilia McCallum Research Fellow,Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester