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Book Synopsis Pigs, Pearlshells, and Women by : Robert M. Glasse
Download or read book Pigs, Pearlshells, and Women written by Robert M. Glasse and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1969 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The articles written for this book show how the religious ideas and ritual actions of the people express their pervasive materialism and rationalize their often tense relations between men and women. The authors show also how the exchange of women in highland societies reflects the political and economic ties between different groups, and how marital preferences and prohibitions influence these relations".--Cover.
Book Synopsis Pigs, Pearlshells and Women. Marriage in the New Guinea Highlands. A Symposium Ed. by R. M. Glasse and M. J. Meggitt by : R. M. Glasse
Download or read book Pigs, Pearlshells and Women. Marriage in the New Guinea Highlands. A Symposium Ed. by R. M. Glasse and M. J. Meggitt written by R. M. Glasse and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pigs, Pearlshells, and Woman by : Robert M. Glasse
Download or read book Pigs, Pearlshells, and Woman written by Robert M. Glasse and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mothers of Money, Daughters of Coffee by : Lorraine Sexton
Download or read book Mothers of Money, Daughters of Coffee written by Lorraine Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Between by : Marilyn Strathern
Download or read book Women in Between written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Between. Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuses on gender relations rather than on women alone. Re-issued now, Women in Between examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyzes the power of women in their male-dominated system. Strathern cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce, and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Women's Roles by : Denise O'Brien
Download or read book Rethinking Women's Roles written by Denise O'Brien and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Book Synopsis The Heart of the Pearl Shell by : James F. Weiner
Download or read book The Heart of the Pearl Shell written by James F. Weiner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a number of myths of the Foi people, elegantly bringing together significant ethnographic materials in a way that has important implications for the development of social theory in anthropology and in Melanesian studies. Scholars of semiotic-symbolic anthropology and of comparative religion will also share the author's interest in the meaning and role of mythology in Foi culture. Instead of relying on orthodox methods of Freudian or structuralist interpretation, James Weiner assumes there is a dialectical relationship between the images of Foi myth and the images of the Foi's social world. He demonstrates how each set of these images is dependent upon the other for its creation. This innovative study locates Foi social meaning in the re-creation and attempted solution of the moral dilemmas that are crystallized in mythology and other poetic usages. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
Book Synopsis Gender and Kinship by : Jane Fishburne Collier
Download or read book Gender and Kinship written by Jane Fishburne Collier and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies by : D. K. Feil
Download or read book The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies written by D. K. Feil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-12-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. K. Feil's study focuses on the divergent regions of the eastern and western highland of Papua New Guinea.
Book Synopsis Between Culture and Fantasy by : Gillian Gillison
Download or read book Between Culture and Fantasy written by Gillian Gillison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms. Gillison shows how the themes expressed in Gimi myths—especially sexual hostility and an obsession with menstrual blood—are dramatized in the elaborate public rituals that accompany marriage, death, and other life crises. The separate myths of Gimi women and men seem to speak to one another, to protest, alter, and enlarge upon myths of the other sex. The sexes cast blame in the veiled imagery of myth and then play out their debate in joint rituals, cooperating in shows of conflict and resolution that leave men undefeated and accord women the greater blame for misfortune.
Book Synopsis Population, Reproduction, and Fertility in Melanesia by : Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Download or read book Population, Reproduction, and Fertility in Melanesia written by Stanley J. Ulijaszek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.
Author :Jeanette Dickerson-Putman Publisher :University of Illinois Press ISBN 13 :9780252066832 Total Pages :176 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (668 download)
Book Synopsis Women Among Women by : Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
Download or read book Women Among Women written by Jeanette Dickerson-Putman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural in nature, the volume looks at relationships between women of different age groups in a village in Taiwan, a town in central Sudan, a rural setting in western Kenya, an Andean peasant community, a horticultural village in Melanesia, and an Aboriginal community in Australia. Adding an interspecies perspective is a study of two age groups of Japanese macaque monkeys. Included is an ethnographic bibliography that lists books with a wealth of information on women in sixty societies.
Book Synopsis Tahitian Transformation by : Victoria S. Lockwood
Download or read book Tahitian Transformation written by Victoria S. Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labour, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation brought about by missionaries, merchants, and French colonisers - a transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands' rapid modernisation and incorporation into the French welfare state.
Book Synopsis Cultures and Contexts Matter by : Carol Jenkins
Download or read book Cultures and Contexts Matter written by Carol Jenkins and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2007 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pulling the Right Threads by : Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
Download or read book Pulling the Right Threads written by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the debate in anthropology over the authenticity of field data and representations of other cultures. Together, they take aim at those who claim ethnography is outmoded or false.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Reproductive Ritual by : Jeffery M. Paige
Download or read book The Politics of Reproductive Ritual written by Jeffery M. Paige and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Book Synopsis Revisioning Gender by : Myra Marx Ferree
Download or read book Revisioning Gender written by Myra Marx Ferree and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1999 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook attempts to summarize the state of gender studies not only by examining the crucial research of the past decade, but by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. Building on the work started by the contributors to this volume's predecessor (Analyzing Gender, Sage 1987), editors Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess reflect on the advances of gender scholarship during the past decade with its emphasis on all levels of social structure from the most macro to the most individual. Revisioning Gender is a step toward constructing a new analytical approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries and the specific agendas entailed therein.
