In Touch with the Earth? Musical Instruments, Gender and Fertility in the Bolivian Andes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096310 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-94 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Ethnomusicology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0968-1221 • E-ISSN: 1741-1920 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17411910801972958 |
| OpenAlex | W2064959308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
This essay discusses beliefs and practices concerning gender, musical instruments and vocal performance in rural communities of northern Potosi′, in the Bolivian Andes. While instrumental performance is a male preserve, critical to the construction and expression of manhood, it is also argued that much value is ascribed to women's singing and creation of song poetry. It is further suggested that women's exclusion from instrumental performance should not necessarily be understood in terms of subordination, but approached within broader models and contexts of gender relations. This involves exploring gendered aspects of fertility, llama husbandry, seasonality, the cosmos and the landscape, leading to an examination of courtship, androgyny, notions of ‘marked’ and ‘unmarked’ gender, and the possibility of multiple gender and degrees of gendering
Androgyny · Art · Courtship · Expression (computer science · Fertility · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Masculinity · Musical · Musical expression · Poetry · Population · Singing · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Value (mathematics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Ecology · Gender Studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Noise
Nature, culture, and gender
“Women Are More Indian”
Mirrors and maize
The hold life has
Music in Aztec and Inca Territory
Andean Entrepreneurs
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Articulated Peasant
Natives Making Nation
Natives Making Nation
Noise, the Political Economy of Music
La musique des Incas et ses survivances
"The Charango and the "Sirena
Flourishing horns and enchanted tubers
Anxious Pleasures
Gender and Modernity in Andean Bolivia
La flûte pinkuyllu des Provincias Altas du Cuzco (Pérou)
The Frame Drum in the Middle East
Mas alla del silencio
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |