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Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific / edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany.
LIBRA GN668 .R45 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Melanesia--Congresses.
- Women.
- Melanesia.
- Sex role--Melanesia--Congresses.
- Sex role.
- Women--Oceania--Congresses.
- Oceania.
- Ethnology--Methodology--Congresses.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Methodology.
- Melanesia--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Social conditions.
- Oceania--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Oceania Region.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984]
- Contents:
- Feminist preceptions 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, accomodation and change on the Pacific frontier / James A. Boutilier.
- Notes:
- Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 201-227.
- ISBN:
- 0520051424
- OCLC:
- 10273876
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