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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 personal, 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? The book focuses on the construction of the gendered person, from foetus
into childhood, and the wider implications of gender identity. Special
attention is paid to the physical and symbolic role of certain substances -
menstrual and arterial blood, semen, breast-milk and food - in the creation and
character of foetus and infant. This analysis of the gendered metaphors of
procreation is illustrated with a wide range of case material, drawn from
European peasant societies and from communities in Africa, Asia-Pacific and
Latin America. 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 personal, social and cosmological contexts. The book aims to offer
specific cultural answers to a range of questions.
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Conceiving Persons: Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth
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