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| Document Type(s): | Book |
| Book Title: | Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation |
| Editor(s): | Buckley, Thomas; Gottlieb, Alma |
| Religion(s): | Hinduism |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Place of Publication: | Berkeley, Calif. |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 |
| Annotation: | Seeking an alternative approach to traditional ethnological studies of menstruation that tend to be universalizing, ethnocentric, and reductionistic in their focus on taboo, pollution, and Western science, this volume aims to give a sense of the diversity of cultural and symbolic meanings and conceptualizes of menstruation through specific ethnographic case studies. The essays collectively point out the culturally constructed nature of menstrual taboos, rules, conceptions, and meanings not only of menstruation, but of Western anthropology and biology as well. |
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