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- catalog abstract ""What does celibacy mean for individuals and for the people around them? What function does it serve? This is the first cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as Kenyan villagers and U.S. prisoners, Mazatec Shamans and Buddhist nuns and monks, Shaker church members and anorexic women." "The examples of celibacy described here illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, religion, health, and other dimensions of life come sharply into focus as the contributors examine the many practices and institutions surrounding sexual abstinence. They show that, though celibacy is certainly sometimes a punishment or a deliberate ritual abstinence, it also serves many other social and material functions and in some cases contributes to kin-group survival and well-being. Celibacy, Culture, and Society represents a significant step toward understanding the functions and meanings of sexuality. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12065807.
- catalog contributor b12065808.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""What does celibacy mean for individuals and for the people around them? What function does it serve? This is the first cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as Kenyan villagers and U.S. prisoners, Mazatec Shamans and Buddhist nuns and monks, Shaker church members and anorexic women." "The examples of celibacy described here illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, religion, health, and other dimensions of life come sharply into focus as the contributors examine the many practices and institutions surrounding sexual abstinence. They show that, though celibacy is certainly sometimes a punishment or a deliberate ritual abstinence, it also serves many other social and material functions and in some cases contributes to kin-group survival and well-being. Celibacy, Culture, and Society represents a significant step toward understanding the functions and meanings of sexuality. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective : an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo -- Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore -- The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow -- The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko -- The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel -- Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins -- Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke -- Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami -- Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal -- Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar -- Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester -- Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. De Munck -- Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw -- A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 274 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Celibacy, culture, and society.".
- catalog identifier "0299171604 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0299171647 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Celibacy, culture, and society.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison : University of Wisconsin Press,".
- catalog relation "Celibacy, culture, and society.".
- catalog subject "306.73/2 21".
- catalog subject "Celibacy.".
- catalog subject "HQ800.15 .C45 2000".
- catalog subject "HQ800.15 .C45 2001".
- catalog subject "Sexual abstinence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Celibacy in cross-cultural perspective : an overview / Sandra Bell and Elisa J. Sobo -- Private lives and public identities : an example of female celibacy in northwest India / Peter Phillimore -- The women who refuse to be exchanged : nuns in Zangskar, northwest India / Kim Gutschow -- The maintenance and reinforcement of celibacy in institutionalized settings / Hector N. Qirko -- The chaste adolescent / Alice Schlegel -- Virgins in the spirit : the celibacy of Shakers / Peter Collins -- Staying clean : notes on Mazatec ritual celibacy and sexual orientation / Michael Duke -- Can women be celibate? Sexuality and abstinence in Theravada Buddhism / Hiroko Kawanami -- Sexual fluids, emotions, morality : notes on the gendering of Brahmacharya / Meena Khandelwal -- Ritualizing celibacy : the poetics of inversion in Chile and Kenya / Mario I. Aguilar -- Like a natural woman : celibacy and the embodied self in anorexia nervosa / Rebecca J. Lester -- Cultural schemas of celibacy / Victor C. De Munck -- Celibacy in American prisons : legal and interpretive perspectives / Mark S. Fleisher and John R. Shaw -- A swallow in winter : a Catholic priesthood viewpoint / Paul Southgate.".
- catalog title "Celibacy, culture, and society : the anthropology of sexual abstinence / edited by Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell.".
- catalog type "text".