Cover -- Gendered Anthropology -- European Association of Social Anthropologists -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Uncomfortable Fields of Knowledge -- A Divided Population: What is Good for Some is Irrelevant for Others -- Genealogical Knowledge -- Addressing Issues of Relevance to Ontemporary Society -- The Problem of Distances -- Inner Boundaries -- Across Boundaries -- Searching For Interpretations: Why the Contribution of Gender Studies is Ignored -- Notes -- 1: Is Sex to Gender as Race is to Ethnicity? -- From Sex to Gender -- From Race to Ethnicity and Back -- Is Sex to Gender as Race is to Ethnicity? -- Gender, Race and Class -- Notes -- 2: The Study of Kinship -- the Study of Person -- A Study of Gender? -- In the Beginning Was Kinship -- Gendered Kinship? -- Sacred Texts -- From Kinship Studies to Person Studies -- Sameness and Difference -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- 3: The Illusion of Dualism in Samoa': Brothers-and-sisters' are not 'men-and-women' -- The Frontier of the Sexes -- Samoa -- Gender -- Two Levels -- Different Examples -- Same Questions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: Blood, Sperm, Soul and the Mountain: Gender Relations, Kinship and Cosmovision Among the Khumbo (n.e. Nepal) -- Prologue-'lucky Stars in the Sky, The Sun Shines Warm Upon the Earth' -- The Khumbo -- Kinship in Society And Cosmos -- The Place of Kinship Within Society: Descent Versus Residence -- Gender in Tibetan 'flesh and Bone' Kinship: Co-existence and Contradictions -- Gender in Khumbo Society -- What It Means to be a Khumbo Woman -- The Generation of a Human Being: The Human Body as Language and Order -- What is a Human Being, Where Does It Come From and Where Does It Go To? -- The Generation of a Human Being: Sexual Relations.

Conception-body Interpretation and Social Affiliation -- Pregnancy-a Critical Period for the 'soul' -- Birth-a Natural Birth in the 'shadow' Beyond Society -- Name Giving-a Social Birth -- Summary: the Human Body as Language and Order for Gender Identity -- The Language of The Body, of Social Order and of Transgression -- Epilogue-how Lady Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal Escaped Her Suitors And Dedicated Herself To The Tantra and the Achievement of Mystic Insight -- Notes -- 5: Home Decoration as Popular Culture: Constructing Homes, Genders and Classes in Norway -- The House as an Object of Study -- The House as A Key Symbol for Modern Intimacy -- Historical Outline -- Homes in Norway -- 'ordinary People' in Bergen -- Home Decoration as a Continuous Project -- Home Decoration as Creativity -- The Home as an Expressive Statement -- The Search for 'wholeness' and 'closeness' -- Constructing Genders -- Constructing Classes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6: Impure or Fertile?: Two Essays on the Crossing of Frontiers Through Anthropology and Feminism -- I Women in the Field-reflections on a Never-endingjourney -- Sabine Strasser and Ruth Kronsteiner -- Fields of Power and Anxiety -- Power Field-university -- Power Field-research -- Preparation -- The Decision -- Yalniz Misiniz?-Are You Alone? -- The Two of Us-each One Alone? -- Two Women Alone -- Fields of Power in the Village -- Between Adjustment and Resistance -- II The Impurity of Research and Female Fertility -- Sabine Strasser -- Personal Relations -- A Never-ending Journey -- Personal Relations in the Village -- Female Fainting as a 'symptom of Sanity'-the Female Treatment of Male Dominance -- Impurity is a Question of Frontiers Andresistance -- Notes -- 7: The Differences Within and the Differences Between -- Sameness and Difference I -- Sameness and Difference II -- Sameness and Difference III -- References.

Name Index -- Subject Index.