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Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Gendered Symbols and Social Practices

Vigdis Broch-Due editor Tone Bleie editor I Rudie editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:6th Jan '93

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Also available in hardback, 9780854967254 GBP50.00 (January, 1993)

Providing an overview of Scandinavian cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language, this volume addresses fundamental analytical issues debated within international feminist anthropology and beyond. It offers examples from a wide range of ethnographic settings to show that gender comprises far more than sexual relationships.Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

'... advances the theoretical discourse on the anthropology of the body ... is also intriguing because it introduces the reader to the 'hotbed' of Norwegian thought on gender.' Folk 'There is something for everyone here and reading the volume in sequence, rather than dipping into individual chapters, was an unusually pleasurable experience. The changing foci and styles produced its own rhythm, engaging the attention and maintaining the reader's interest as a complex theoretical argument would be superseded by a more descriptive and evocative ethnographic account. [...] In allowing us access to contemporary Norwegian anthropology it is a most welcome contribution and in providing further studies of gender it should prove a useful resource for both teachers and students of sociology and anthropology.' Journal of Gender Studies

ISBN: 9780854968688

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

312 pages