essay
Menstruation among the Rungus: an unmarked category
Blood magic : the anthropology of menstruation, edited, with an introduction by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb • Berkeley • Published In 1988 • Pages: 94-112, 265-266, 314-281
By: Appell, Laura W. R..
Abstract
According to Laura Appell, menstruation is an unmarked category in Rungus culture. Little attention is paid to it. Girls are totally uninformed and unprepared for it. There are no taboos surrounding it. It is not considered polluting. Menstruating women are not secluded. Appell attributes this lack of attention to gender symmetry in the Rungus culture. The document includes a 34-page bibliography on the ethnology of menstruation.
- Subjects
- Information sources listed in other works
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Family relationships
- Menstruation
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Transmission of skills
- culture
- Rungus Dusun
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field Date
- 1959-1963
- Coverage Date
- 1959-1963
- Coverage Place
- Kudat District, Sabah, Malaysia
- Notes
- Laura W. R. Appell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-314)
- LCCN
- 87012529
- LCSH
- Dusun (Bornean people)