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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Family relationships
- Menstruation
- Transmission of cultural norms
- Transmission of skills
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rungus Dusun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1963
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kudat District, Sabah, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laura W. R. Appell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-314)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87012529
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dusun (Bornean people)