Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity - 5213

What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? Anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores this question in "a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey." (Publishers Weekly) In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness—on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality—is almost universal, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common.
ASIN: 0300050763
VSKU: PKV.0300050763.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:David D. Gilmore
Binding: Paperback