Beyond Bodies examines the Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites.
Todd Sanders is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and a visiting professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Trondheim, Norway.
Illustrations
p. vii
Preface
p. ix
Language and Orthography
p. xvii
Introduction: Rainmaking, Gender Epistemologies, and Explanation
p. 3
Ihanzu Everyday Worlds
p. 28
The Making and Unmaking of Rains and Reigns
p. 69
Gendered Life-Worlds and Transformative Processes
p. 103
Annual Rain Rites
p. 123
(Wo)men Behaving Badly: Genders within Bodies
p. 139
Ancestral Rain Offerings: Genders without Bodies
p. 160
Witchcraft, Gender, and Inversion
p. 182
Conclusion
p. 198
Notes
p. 203
References
p. 225
Index
p. 249
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