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Author Ethienne, Mona

Title Women and colonization : anthropological perspectives
Published New York : Praeger, 1980

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 MELB  305.4 Wom  AVAILABLE
Description 339 pages : illustrations
Series J.F. Bergin Publishers Bk
J.F. Bergin Publishers Bk
Contents Montagnais women and the Jesuit program for colonization / Eleanor Leacock -- Sunksquaws, shamans, and tradeswomen: middle Atlantic coastal Algonkian women during the 17th and 18th centuries / Robert Steven Grumet -- The mother of the nation: Seneca resistance to Quaker intervention / Diane Rothenberg -- Contending with colonization: Tlingit men and women in change / Laura F. Klein -- Forced transition from egalitarianism to male dominance: the Bari of Colombia / Elisa Buenaventura-Posso and Susan E. Brown -- Aztec women: the transition from status to class in empire and colony / June Nash -- "The universe has turned inside out... There is no justice for us here:" Andean women under Spanish rule / Irene Silverblatt -- Daughters of the lakes and rivers: colonization and the land rights of Luo women / Achola Pala Okeyo -- Women and men, cloth and colonization: the transformation of production-distribution relations among the Baule (Ivory Coast) / Mona Etienne -- Desert politics: choices in the "marriage market" / Diane Bell -- Stability in banana leaves: colonization and women in Kiriwina, Trobriand Islands / Annette B. Weiner -- Putting down sisters and wives: Tongan women and colonization / Christine Ward Gailey
Summary Paper by D. Bell separately annotated
Notes bibls.; diags.; illus.; map
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Event 1980
Subject Colonies.
Feminist anthropology.
Indigenous peoples.
Sex role.
Social change.
Women -- History.
Author Leacock, Eleanor Burke, 1922-1987.
LC no. 79015318
ISBN 0030525810 (paperback)
0030525861
9780030525810 (paperback)
9780030525865