The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life by Schloss, Marc R.

The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816513642)

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The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life by Schloss, Marc R.

The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life

$24.95
The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life by Schloss, Marc R.

The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology

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 R. 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.

Author: Marc R. Schloss
ISBN-10: 0816513643
ISBN-13: 9780816513642
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1992
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Marc R. Schloss
By Marc R. Schloss
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Marc R. Schloss is a cultural anthropologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has taught anthropology at Virginia, the University of South Carolina, Sweet Briar College, and Bucknell University. This book on the late Ehing people draws from his twenty-two months of research in Senegal in the late 1970s.

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