Blood magic
Subtitle: the anthropology of menstruation
By: edited, with an introduction by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb.
Contributors: Buckley, Thomas C. T.; Gottlieb, Alma.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Menstruation -- Cross-cultural studies; Menstruation -- Folklore; Menstruation -- Social aspects
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [281]-314.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1. A critical appraisal of theories of menstrual symbolism / Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb; title: 2. Menstrual cosmology among the Beng of Ivory Coast / Alma Gottlieb; title: 3. Mortal flow / Carol Delaney; title: 4. Menstruation among the Rungus of Borneo / Laura W.R. Appell; title: 5. Menstrual politics / Denise L. Lawrence; title: 6. Menstrual symbolism in South Wales / Vieda Skultans; title: 7. Premenstrual syndrome / Emily Martin; title: 8. Menstruation and the power of Yurok women; title: 9. Heavenly bodies / Frederick Lamp; title: 10. Menstrual synchrony and the Australian rainbow snake / Chris Knight.