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CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN | VOL. 8

Gendered Symbols and Social Practices

Edited by
VigdisBroch-Due,IngridRudieandToneBleie

First published 1993 by Berg Publishers

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gendered symbols and social practices/edited by Vigdis Broch-Due,
Ingrid Rudie and Tone Bleie.
p. cm. -- (Cross-cultural perspectives on women)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-85496-725-7 (cloth). -- ISBN 0-85496-868-7 (paper)
1. Sex role--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses. 2. Sex differences
(Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.
I. Broch-Due, Vidgis. II. Rudie, Ingrid. III. Bleie, Tone.
IV. Series.
GN479.65.G48 1993 92-2491
305. 3--dc20 CIP

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Gender: Symbols and Social Practises.
(Cross-cultural Perspectives on Women Series)
I. Broch-Due, Vigdis II. Series
305.3

ISBN13: 978-0-8549-6725-4 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-8549-6868-8 (pbk)

KARIN ASK is a research Fellow at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen. Based on fieldwork in North-East Pakistan, she has worked extensively on migration, socialisation practices and the gendering of space. Her current interests centre on notions of the person in the Middle Eastern region informed by semiotic analysis.

TONE BLEIE has conducted fieldwork among Hindus and Muslims in Bangladesh which resulted in articles on witchcraft notions, marriage systems and particularly on the gift-commodity nature of presentations forms. From 1989 Bleie has been a research fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute Bergen and the coordinator of a gender focused research programme.

TORDIS BORCHGREVINK is employed as a researcher at the Work Research Institute in Oslo. T. Borchgrevinks main interests focus on the exploration of the production of meaning and knowledge in modem culture, with the concept of change as both a practical and theoretical issue. Her interest in attempting to genderize the general theorectical discourse on modernity has resulted in articles in magazines and anthologies and is also the subject matter of the main thesis. The next stage is under preparation in collaboration with Jorum Solheim, under the preliminary title Sex and Reason.

VIGDIS BROCH-DUE, has recently been employed as Senior Lecturer at the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of Oslo. Previously she was a researcher at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the LSE and Visiting Professor at the University of Washington. Her research interesting include the dynamics of regional relations between nomadic pastoralism and farming, fishing, foraging in arid areas of Africa. She has carried out long-term fieldwork in Turkana, Kenya and has worked as a consultant for various developing agencies in the area. In her works on economic anthropology, she focuses on the changing relations of property, kinship, and gender as a result of recent processes of sedentarization and monetization. Currently, her main theoretical interest is the cultural construction of the gendered person (embodiment, enactment, subjectivity, knowledge) and processes of objectification among the Turkana (The Bodies in the Body: Journeys in Turkana Thought and Practice, forthcoming). She has also published a number of articles and reports.

MARIT MELHUUS is Senior Lecturer at the Department and Museum of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She has extensive experience from Latin America, including field work in Argentina and Mexico. She previously worked as a researcher at the Work Research Institute of Oslo, heading a project on the life situation of Norwegian sailors families. This experience has laid the basis for an interest in modernity in a cross cultural perspective. She has worked with a focus on social change, initially prompted by a concern for development issues. She is currently finalizing a book based on her field work in a Mexican rural community which converges around the themes of morality, gender and modernity. She is also working on the notion of text in anthropological analysis with particular reference to Ocative Paz and the way his texts are appropriated by anthropologists and other social scientists working on Mexico.

INGRID RUDIE is Professor and Head of the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of Oslo. She has fieldwork experience in Norway and Malaysia. She started in anthropology in the 1960s with a main preoccupation with the ecologies and economics of household organisation. More recent interests are in the person and the reproduction of culture with special reference to gender and modernisation. She has published a number of articles and edited a book on these various topics and has recently finished a mongraph based on long-term fieldwork in Malaysia (Visible Women in East Coast Malay Culture - forthcoming). She is planning more research on gender and modernisation in European and as well as Southeast Asian context.

KIRSTEN SANDBORG worked for many years as a physiotherapist before she took her degree in anthropology in the late 1980s. With fieldwork experience from Malaysia, Sandborg has worked on fundamentalism, modernisation and gender. Recently Sandborg has embarked on a project supported by the National Research Council for Medical Research in Norway.

SARAH LUND SKAR, is Lecturer at the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of Oslo. She has carried out extensive fieldwork among the Quechua of highland Peru and hopes to be publishing her doctoral dissertation, entitled Lives Together Worlds Apart; Quechua Colonization in Jungle and City, in the near future. Her published works include numerous articles on culture and gender as well as on Quechua healing practices. Her current academic interests include the interplay of oral and literate traditions and indigenous perceptions of separateness and mobility.

KARISIYERTS serves as part-time lecturer at the Department of S.A., BiB, Bergen. Between 1984-7 she was a Research Fellow of the Norwegian Research Council (NAVF). She is currently a consultant at the Bergen Municipal Archives. Her research is based upon fieldwork in western Norway and long-term study of the Maya Indians of Oxchuc, Chiapas, Mexico. The latter emphasises gender relations, identity and development.

JORUN SOLHEIM has been teaching anthropology at the University of Oslo, and is now employed as a Researcher at the Work Resarch Institute, Oslo. Her research includes studies on work life and family organisation within contemporary Norwegian society and her main field of interest is the symbolism of gender within modem culture. She has written various articles on gender, language and symbolisation, as well as on feminist critique and interpretation. She is currently working on a book preliminary entitled