Meaning of acault | Babel Free

Definitions

A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.

Examples

“According to a recent travelers' report⟳ (Coleman, Celgon, and Gooren, 1987), the hijra community of India (see⟳ this chapter) has a counterpart in Burma, where men who live⟳ as women are called acault (pronounced a·chow').”

“Because Manguedon is the spirit who controls success and good fortune, acault become⟳ an important intermediary between those seeking good fortune and success and the -^([sic]) spirit god.”

“A Burmese acault tells an ethnographer he is a woman only by his sexual role; otherwise, he expresses himself through his penis and its orgasms.”

“Recall⟳ in any event that is not unusual, as Coleman et al. (1992:317) reported, for a male to have⟳ sexual relations with an acault or, presumably with someone in one of the other lexically marked subject positions, […]”

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