Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders Among Bugis in Indonesia

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Author: Sharyn Graham Davies

ISBN-10: 0495092800

ISBN-13: 9780495092803

Category: Anthropology & Archaeology

See how gender identities are constructed in a rapidly changing cultural milieu with CHALLENGING GENDER NORMS: THE FIVE GENDERS OF INDONESIA! This case study in cultural anthropology explores the Bugis ethnic group, native to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, which recognizes five gender categories rather than the two acknowledged in most societies. This ethnography presents individuals' stories, opinions, and deliberations and proposes a new theory of gender which incorporates appreciation...

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See how gender identities are constructed in a rapidly changing cultural milieu with CHALLENGING GENDER NORMS: THE FIVE GENDERS OF INDONESIA! This case study in cultural anthropology explores the Bugis ethnic group, native to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, which recognizes five gender categories rather than the two acknowledged in most societies. This ethnography presents individuals' stories, opinions, and deliberations and proposes a new theory of gender which incorporates appreciation of variously gendered subjectivities.

1. Conceptualizing Gender. 2.The Importance of Being Gendered. 3.Hunting Down Love: Female Transgendering. 4.Contesting Masculinity and Negotiating Femininity. 5.Androgynous Shamans and Rituals of Gender. 6.I Do, I Do: A Journey Through Two Indonesian Weddings. Conclusion: Rethinking Gender.