The Sex Thieves: The Anthropology of a Rumor
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic outcomes: the sex thieves are often targeted by large crowds and publicly lynched. Moreover, such rumors are an extremely widespread practice, having affected almost half of the African continent since the 1970s. In this book, Bonhomme examines the story of the penis snatcher, asking larger questions about how to account for such a phenomenon--unique in its spatial and…
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Weitere Autoren: Descola, Philippe (Solist) / Horsfall, Dominic (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-9861325-8-2
- EAN: 9780986132582
- Produktnummer: 19748445
- Verlag: Hau
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.8 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
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