| Description |
xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Feminist perceptions in anthropology / Sharon W. Tiffany -- Domesticity and the denigration of women / Marilyn Strathern -- Complementarity, the relationship between female and male in the East Sepik Village of Bun, Papua New Guinea / Nancy McDowell -- "Women never hunt," the portrayal of women in Melanesian ethnography / Denise O'Brien -- Revenge suicide by Lusi women, an expression of power / Dorothy Ayers Counts -- Women, work, and change in Nagovisi / Jill Nash -- Pigs, pearlshells, and "women's work," collective response to change in Highland Papua New Guinea / Lorraine Dusak Sexton -- "Sing to the Lord a new song," women in the churches of Oceania / Charles W. Forman -- European women in the Solomons Islands, 1900-1942, accommodation and change on the Pacific frontier / James A. Boutilier |
| Analysis |
Feminist anthropology |
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Melanesia Society Role of women |
| Notes |
Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 201-227 |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Methodology -- Congresses.
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Feminist anthropology.
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Sex role -- Melanesia -- Congresses.
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Women -- Melanesia -- Congresses.
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Women -- Oceania -- Congresses.
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| SUBJECT |
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
O'Brien, Denise.
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Tiffany, Sharon W.
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Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
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| LC no. |
83024213 |
| ISBN |
0520051424 |
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