| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Anthropology online |
| Contents |
Encountering the unexpected -- Batek views of the sexes -- Social life -- Sharing the work: The gender division of labor -- Growing up Batek -- Continuity and change in Batek gender -- Understanding Batek egalitarianism |
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DVD: Camp life -- Children -- Hunting -- Fishing -- Gathering tubers -- Gathering fruit -- Collecting honey -- Collecting fragrant wood and rattan vine -- Swidden farming |
| Summary |
"An ethnography of one of the few remaining hunting and gathering peoples of Southeast Asia, The Headman Was a Woman presents the gender concepts, roles, and relations of the highly egalitarian Batek of Peninsular Malaysia. Based on longtime fieldwork, the book describes the lives of Batek men and women in the tropical rainforest, and includes discussions of fieldwork, hunting and gathering, social organization, religion, gender, nonviolence, and cultural persistence in the face of a changing landscape." "The Headman Was a Woman introduces readers - from first-year anthropology students to hunter-gatherer specialists - to an egalitarian people whose way of life is both thought-provoking and rare."--ORIGINAL BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-163) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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This edition in English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Batek (Malaysian people)
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Sex role -- Malaysia -- Malaya
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Batek (Malaysian people) -- Social conditions
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Batek (Malaysian people) -- Social life and customs
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Batek (Malaysian people)
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Sex role
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Geschlechterrolle
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Malaya
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Malaysia
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Batek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Endicott, Karen Lampell
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