Beyond Bodies: Rain-Making and Sense-Making in Tanzania by Todd Sanders

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

Anthropological Horizons (University of Toronto)

Todd Sanders

261 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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 ex...

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