Beyond Bodies: Rain-Making and Sense-Making in Tanzania

by Todd Sanders

Book Overview

For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and the act of procreation. But what happens when our interlocutors deny such symbolic explanations, when they insist that rain rites and the gender and sexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802095828
• ISBN13: 9780802095824
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher