Blood magic : the anthropology of menstruation / edited, with an introduction by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1988], ©1988.

x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes index

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

1. A critical appraisal of theories of menstrual symbolism / Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb -- 2. Menstrual cosmology among the Beng of Ivory Coast / Alma Gottlieb -- 3. Mortal flow / Carol Delaney -- 4. Menstruation among the Rungus of Borneo / Laura W.R. Appell -- 5. Menstrual politics / Denise L. Lawrence -- 6. Menstrual symbolism in South Wales / Vieda Skultans -- 7. Premenstrual syndrome / Emily Martin -- 8. Menstruation and the power of Yurok women -- 9. Heavenly bodies / Frederick Lamp -- 10. Menstrual synchrony and the Australian rainbow snake / Chris Knight.

Bibliography: p. [281]-314