Title The cool knife : imagery of gender, sexuality, and moral education in Kaguru initiation ritual / T.O. Beidelman

Published Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description xv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry. Contents Ch. 1. Introduction: Problems of Ritual, Gender, and Identity -- Ch. 2. Constructing Ethnicity: Imagining Kaguruland and Kaguru People -- Ch. 3. Kaguru Personal Strategies of Kinship and the Family -- Ch. 4. Space and Memory: Ritual, Ethnicity, and Personhood -- Ch. 5. First Encounters with Sexuality -- Ch. 6. Ceremonies of Men's and Women's Initiation -- Ch. 7. Learning Adulthood: Initiation Songs -- Ch. 8. Conclusion: Person, Time, and Ethnicity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index Subject Adolescence -- Tanzania. Initiation rites -- Tanzania. Kaguru (African people) -- Ethnic identity. Kaguru (African people) -- Psychology. Kaguru (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies. Sex role -- Tanzania. SUBJECT Tanzania -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132383 LC no. 96043928 ISBN 1560987138 1560987146 (paperback)

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