Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0826463657 ISBN 13: 9780826463654

Verlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 1999

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Reseña del editor:

This broad analysis of the symbolism of reproduction is an exploration of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their persona, social and cosmological contexts. The book aims to offer specific cultural answers to a range of questions. What is the relation of human fertility to that of plants, animals and the land? Which fluids must be present for a woman to become pregnant? How marginal or contingent is the male procreative role considered to be? What factors determine the gender, health or strength of a child? What metaphors are used to explain an act and a process historically held as both mysterious and essential? Are there any constraints to the ways in which different societies have answered these questions?

Biografía del autor:

Peter Loizos is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Patrick Heady holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and works at the Office for National Statistics.

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• Verlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0826463657
• ISBN 13: 9780826463654
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
• Herausgeber: Loizos Peter Z., Heady Patrick