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Hidden meanings: explorations into a Bamanan construction of gender
Ethnology • 28 (2) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 167-183
By: Grosz-Ngaté, Maria Luise.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article explores the construction of gender among Bamana cultivators of Sana Province, Mali. It argues that Bamana notions of gender are rooted in daily practices relating to shared meanings of perhood, marriage practices and gender ideology.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Division of labor by gender
- Verbal arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Classes
- Slavery
- Basis of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Lineages
- Territorial hierarchy
- Wrongs
- Burial practices and funerals
- Missions
- Status of adolescents
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bambara
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981-1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1766-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mali
- NotesAdditional notes
- Maria Grosz-Ngaté
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bambara (African people)