Blood Magic
Subtitle: The Anthropology of Menstruation
Contributors: Thomas Buckley (Editor); Alma Gottlieb (Editor)
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: July 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780520060852
Subjects: Cross-cultural studies; Anthropology; Women's studies; Sociology; Folklore; Medical Anthropology; Menstruation; Social aspects
First sentence: The topic of menstruation has long been a staple of anthropology, for this apparently ordinary biological event has been subject to extraordinary symbolic elaboration in a wide variety of cultures.