Indigenous religions
By: edited by Stephen Hunt
Series: The library of essays on sexuality and religion; Library of essays on sexuality and religion
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780754629603
Subjects: Sex; Religion; Sexual behavior; Religious aspects; Indigenous peoples
Description: Collection of previously published essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The timing and role of initiation rites in preparing young people for adolescence and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour in Malawi  -- Alister C. Munthali and Eliya M. Zulu; title: Coming of age in Samoa and Nebraska  -- David Weisberg; title: Learning the facts of life :; title: past and present experiences in a rural Tanzanian community  -- Denise Roth Allen; title: Growing yams and men :; title: an interpretation of Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior  -- J. Patrick Gray; title: Liminal meanings :; title: sexually charged Giriama funerary ritual and unsettled participant frameworks  -- Janet McIntosh; title: Perversion of power, witchcraft and the sexuality of evil in the South African Lowveld  -- Isak Niehaus; title: Witchcraft and the exchange of sex, blood, and money among Africans in Cape Town, South Africa  -- Erik Bähre; title: Broken Calabashes and covenants of fruitfulness :; title: cursing barrenness and contemporary African Christianity  -- J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu; title: Male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil  -- Peter Fry; title: Women heal women :; title: spirit possession and sexual segregation in a Muslim society  -- Pamela Constantinides; title: Manhood, warriorhood and sex in eastern Africa :; title: perspectives from the 19th and 20th centuries  -- Dent Ocaya-Lakidi; title: Sex, food and female power :; title: discussion of data material from northern Mozambique  -- Signe Arnfred; title: Heteronormativity and the deflection of male same-sex attraction among the Pitjantjatjara people of Australia's Western Desert  -- Jon Willis; title: Sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes :; title: the case of cross-gendered females --; title: Queer Nahuatl :; title: Sahagún's faggots and sodomites, lesbians and hermaphrodites  -- Pete Sigal; title: Sexuality and cargo cults :; title: the politics of gender and procreation in West New Britain  -- Andrew Lattas; title: Myth, pilgrimage and fascination in the Aiyappa cult :; title: a view from field work in Tamil Nadu  -- Lars Kjaerholm; title: Reclaiming the past to inform the future :; title: contemporary views of Maori sexuality  -- Clive Aspin and Jessica Hutchings; title: That monster of nature :; title: gender, sexuality, and the medicalization of a hermaphrodite in late colonial Guatemala  -- Martha Few; title: The sins of the fathers :; title: Franciscan friars, parish priests and the sexual conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1808 -- John F. Chuchiak.