The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (Anthropology of Form and Meaning)


By: Schloss,Marc R.

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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 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.

Title: The Hatchet's Blood: Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life (Anthropology of Form and Meaning)

Author Name: Schloss,Marc R.

ISBN Number: 0816510423

ISBN-13: 9780816510429

Location Published: University of Arizona Press: 1988/05/01 00:00:00.000

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Used - Good

Categories: Anthropology Hard Cover, Anthropology/Archaeology Hard Cover

Seller ID: 280437

Keywords: and gender in ehing social life (anthropology of form and meaning), marc r. hatchet's blood: separation, power, schloss