Genital Cutting: The Past and Present of a Polythetic Category
In: Africa today, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 2-17
ISSN: 1527-1978
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In: Africa today, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 2-17
ISSN: 1527-1978
In: Africa today, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 3-18
ISSN: 0001-9887
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 108, Heft 3, S. 588-589
ISSN: 1548-1433
Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. Leonard B. Glick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 370 pp.
In: Journal of comparative family studies, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 310-311
ISSN: 1929-9850
Draws on data from a 1976-1984 field study on the anthropology of mass communications in Benin City, Nigeria, to analyze the 1984 documentary, "A Squandering of Riches," which offered a scathing analysis of political & military crisis through the eyes of popular singer Onyeka Onwenu. However, content analysis of Nigerian newspapers following the documentary's broadcast revealed criticisms of this personal style of journalism, focusing on issues of tribalism & encroaching individualism, both antithetical to national unity. Onwenu was chastised for transgressing accepted rules of discourse, eg, airing "dirty laundry" in public & promoting an individualism associated with Western hegemony & cultural imperialism. Further analysis of leading newspapers & magazines revealed a marked absence of personal or biographical stories about public figures in general. This is attributed to the economic, social, religious, & political factors governing the production of print media in Nigeria. K. Hyatt Stewart
In: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology 15
"Shedding important new light on a subject as old as humanity itself, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader presents a comprehensive collection of historical and current readings in the social anthropology of sexuality. Succinct and revealing excerpts from key figures in the history of anthropology about sexualities, morality, and the family are featured. The most recent literature on both heterosexualities and same-sex sexualities is also included, as well as material on past and present controversies, including Derek Freeman's famous attack on Margaret Mead's writings on sexual freedom in Samoa; the notion of "primitive" promiscuity in the 19th and early 20th centuries; concerns for the practice of clitoridectomy and other forms of "genital cutting;" the discussion of homosexualities in different cultures; and the meaning of love. Thought-provoking and always fascinating, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader offers keen insights into the diversity of human social beliefs, practices, and interactions relating to human sexual behavior around the world"--