Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method

x, 392 pages : maps ; 24 cm. Contents: Comparing gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: a theoretical orientation / Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin Two forms of masculine ritualized rebirth: the Melanesian body and the Amazonian cosmos / Pascale Bonnemère The variety of fertility cultism in Amazonia: a closer look at gender symbolism in Northwestern Amazonia / Jonathan D. Hill Reproducing inequality: the gender politics of male cults in the Papua New Guinea highlands and Amazonia / Aletta Biersack The genres of gender: local models and global paradigms in the comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia / Philippe Descola Aged-based genders among the Kayapo / William H. Fisher Women's blood, warriors' blood, and the conquest of vitality in Amazonia / Beth A. Conklin Damming the rivers of milk? Fertility, sexuality, and modernity in Melanesia and Amazonia / Margaret Jolly Worlds overturned: gender-infected religious movements in Melanesia and the Amazon / Michael F. Brown Same-sex and cross-sex relations: some internal comparisons / Marilyn Strathern The gender of some Amazonian gifts: an experiment with an experiment / Stephen Hugh-Jones "Strength" and sexuality: sexual avoidance and masculinity in New Guinea and Amazonia / Paul Roscoe The anguish of gender: men's cults and moral contradiction in Amazonia and Melanesia / Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin Reflections on the land of Melazonia / Thomas A. Gregor and Donald Tuzin.…