Chapter 3 Anthropology
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Provides a sociological explanation of how menses can play an important role in the way of living of a society. It comes alive socially and makes its presence felt in the cultural realm in the form of rituals at menarche, taboos and restrictions throughout one’s menstrual life, the gendered meanings that are constructed as a result of the following of such taboos, and the variety of treatments used in the cure of menstrual disorders that come with menstruation. Peep into the unequal world of men and women, through a social entity such as menstruation. Whatever kind of gender asymmetry may be, it is there and it never ceases to surprise one that a physiological condition like menstruation can give meaning to the social world of men and women. Menstruation showed the numerous types of role-playing women engage, in, in order to sustain their “feminine” space within the society. The taboos, restrictions and rituals are replete with the subtle manner in which they bring about the oppression of women by assigning them the status of a pollutant. This status itself can never allow women to rise up to a better status and be equal to men. Moreover the taboos being connected as part of the Assamese tradition well not disappear from the lives of women, as they believe that traditions are to be respected and kept intact to maintain the identity of oneself as Assamese.
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