| Description |
xi, 2 unnumbered pages, 296 pages ; illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction Margaret Jolly and Martha MacIntyre; 1. New England missionary wives, Hawaiian women and 'the cult of true womanhood' Patricia Grimshaw; 2. Changes in the lives of ordinary women in early post-contact Hawaii Caroline Ralston; 3. Domestic structures and polyandry in the Marquesas Islands Nicholas Thomas; 4. The object lesson of a civilised, Christian home Diane Langmore; 5. Medical care and gender in Papua New Guinea Donald Denoon; 6. Suffer the children: Wesleyans in the D'Entrecasteaux Michael W. Young; 7. Women in contemporary Central Enga society, Papua New Guinea M. J. Meggitt; 8. Better homes and gardens Martha MacIntyre; 9. God, ghosts and people: Christianity and social organisation among Takuru Wiru Jeffrey Clark; 10. Sins of a mission: Christian life as Kwaio traditionalist ideology Roger M. Keesing; 11. Sacred spaces: churches, men's houses and households in South Pentecost, Vanuatu Margaret Jolly; 12. Bond-slaves of Satan: Aboriginal women and the missionary dilemma Annette Hamilton; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Papers on imposition of European family life and values on Pacific peoples and Australian Aborigines by missionaries and settlers |
| Analysis |
Missions - Oceania |
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Oceania - Social life and customs |
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Pacific islands Cultural processes Effects of colonisation |
| Notes |
Bibliography; p. 259-280; Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 259-280 |
| Subject |
Acculturation -- Oceania.
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Anthropology -- Pacific Area.
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Culture diffusion -- Pacific Area.
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Families -- Oceania.
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Families -- Pacific Area.
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Missions -- Oceania.
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Sex role -- Oceania.
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Missions -- Pacific Area.
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Sex role -- Pacific Area.
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Social change -- Pacific Area.
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Women -- Oceania.
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Women -- Pacific Area.
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| SUBJECT |
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Colonial influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253
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Oceania -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116423
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Colonial influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| Author |
Jolly, Margaret, 1949-
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Macintyre, Martha, 1945-
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| LC no. |
88025834 |
| ISBN |
0521346673 |
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