caa a22 4500 388037016 CHVBK 20180307125008.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161280 doi S0001972000047161 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161280 Sanders Todd Making children, making chiefs: gender, power and ritual legitimacy [Elektronische Daten] [Todd Sanders] This article explores indigenous notions of power and chiefly legitimacy among the Ihanzu, a relatively small Bantu-speaking community located in north central Tanzania. Particular attention is paid to local ideas and ideals of gender—that is, the cultural categories ‘male' and ‘female', as well as the relationship between them—in an effort to show the complex ways in which gender categories, when combined, are powerful and capable of effecting transformations of different sorts. Men and women, by combining male and female fertilising fluids, create children. Similarly, male and female chiefs, through royal incest, bring forth male and female rains. It is suggested that the strategic combination of the cultural categories ‘male' and ‘female' provides the underlying transformative model both for sexual reproduction and for rainmaking. And it is through the combination of gender categories that chiefs legitimise their own positions, first by producing rain and, second, by metaphorically giving birth to all Ihanzu people each season. But whether for chiefs or commoners, it is argued that power frequently comes in gendered pairs. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Africa Cambridge University Press 68/2(1998-04), 238-262 0001-9720 68:2<238 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161280 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161280 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sanders Todd NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/2(1998-04), 238-262 0001-9720 68:2<238 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 07718355X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge