Conceiving Persons

PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Gender, Symbolism and Praxis: Theoretical Approaches PART II RITUAL SYMBOLS: PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVES 2 'Doing Gender' in Africa: Embodying Categories and the Categorically Disembodied 3 The Lion at the Waterhole: The Secrets of Life and Death in Chewa 4 First Gender, Wrong Sex 5 Saisee Tororeita: An Analysis of Complementarity in Akie Gender Ideology 6 Creation and the Multiple Female Body: Turkana Perspectives on Gender and Cosmos PART III GENDER, FERTILITY AND SOCIAL AGENCY 7 'Dealing with Men's Spears': Datooga Pastoralists Combating Male Intrusion on Female Fertility 8 Gender Ideology, and the Domestic and Public Domains Among the Iraqw 9 Women's Work is Weeping: Constructions of Gender in a Catholic Community PART IV AFTERWARD 10 Chaos and Creativity: The Transformative Symbolism of Fused Categories