Gender Symbolism and Power Relations: A Reassessment of the Amb Kor Cult of Mt. Hagen
作者:
MARY HAWKINS,
期刊:
Mankind
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 14,
issue 3
页码: 217-224
ISSN:0025-2328
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1984.tb01402.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
This paper explores expressions of gender symbolism in a fertility cult of Mount Hagen. This cult – theamb kor– has been analysed by Andrew Strathern in terms of its symbolic construction as a set of statements about male/female relations, his emphasis being on the operation of reversal, pairing and opposition within the cult. My contention is that such a structural analysis is insufficient. Through a discussion of historical process in Hagen I attempt to locateamb korin a more materialist framework, viewing is as a discourse on the state of power relations in Hagen. In this respect, I seeamb koras being equally a set of statements about male/male relations as male/fem
点击下载:
PDF
(638KB)
返 回