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Fruit of the motherland : gender in an egalitarian society / Maria Lepowsky.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .L47 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lepowsky, Maria Alexandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist anthropology.
- Sex role.
- Equality--Social aspects.
- Equality.
- Gender identity.
- Matrilineal kinship.
- Papua New Guinea--Tagula Island.
- Tagula (Papua New Guinean people)--Kinship.
- Tagula (Papua New Guinean people).
- Kinship.
- Tagula (Papua New Guinean people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Tagula (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Matrilineal kinship--Papua New Guinea--Tagula Island.
- Gender identity--Papua New Guinea--Tagula Island.
- Equality--Social aspects--Papua New Guinea--Tagula Island.
- Sex role--Papua New Guinea--Tagula Island.
- Tagula Island (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Tagula Island (Papua New Guinea).
- Feminist anthropology--Papua New Guinea--Tagula Island.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 383 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1993]
- Summary:
- An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231081200
- OCLC:
- 28183522
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