Blood magic : the anthropology of menstruation / edited, with an introduction by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb.

Contributor(s): Buckley, Thomas C. T | Gottlieb, AlmaMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988. Description: x, 326 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0520060857 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Menstruation -- Cross-cultural studies | Menstruation -- Folklore | Menstruation -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 305.4 LOC classification: GN484.38 | .B56 1988

Contents:

1. A critical appraisal of theories of menstrual symbolism / Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb -- 2. Menstrual cosmology among the Beng of Ivory Coast / Alma Gottlieb -- 3. Mortal flow / Carol Delaney -- 4. Menstruation among the Rungus of Borneo / Laura W.R. Appell -- 5. Menstrual politics / Denise L. Lawrence -- 6. Menstrual symbolism in South Wales / Vieda Skultans -- 7. Premenstrual syndrome / Emily Martin -- 8. Menstruation and the power of Yurok women -- 9. Heavenly bodies / Frederick Lamp -- 10. Menstrual synchrony and the Australian rainbow snake / Chris Knight.

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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [281]-314.

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