Ritual gendered relationships: Kinship, marriage, mastery, and machi modes of personhood

Journal of Anthropological Research

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-229

  Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; COMMUNITY; COMPREHENSION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FAMILY; GENDER; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATION; PERFORMANCE; PERSONHOOD; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 3142737959     PISSN: 00917710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/jar.60.2.3630816     Document Type: Review

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