Author: Robert M. Glasse
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"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.
Pigs, Pearlshells, and Women
Author: Robert M. Glasse
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"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.
Pigs, Pearlshells and Women. Marriage in the New Guinea Highlands. A Symposium Ed. by R. M. Glasse and M. J. Meggitt
Author: R. M. Glasse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Pigs, Pearlshells, and Woman
Author: Robert M. Glasse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Women in Between
Author: Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847677856
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847677856
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Mothers of Money, Daughters of Coffee
Author: Lorraine Sexton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Rethinking Women's Roles
Author: Denise O'Brien
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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.
Gender and Kinship
Author: Jane Fishburne Collier
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804718196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
The Heart of the Pearl Shell
Author: James F. Weiner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520336933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520336933
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Women Among Women
Author: Jeanette Dickerson-Putman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066832
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066832
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
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.
The Evolution of Highland Papua New Guinea Societies
Author: D. K. Feil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521334233
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
D. K. Feil's study focuses on the divergent regions of the eastern and western highland of Papua New Guinea.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521334233
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
D. K. Feil's study focuses on the divergent regions of the eastern and western highland of Papua New Guinea.