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The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (The Anthropology of Form and Meaning)
Schloss
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Description for The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (The Anthropology of Form and Meaning)
Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 295.
The ritual complexes of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal, embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained in Ehing culture by the concept of Odieng (""hatchet""), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc Schloss's ethnography of the Ehing is a study of the meaning of Odieng's power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.
The ritual complexes of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal, embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained in Ehing culture by the concept of Odieng (""hatchet""), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc Schloss's ethnography of the Ehing is a study of the meaning of Odieng's power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
178
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816513642
SKU
V9780816513642
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