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Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific
- Title
- Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific / edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.
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- Description
- xiii, 237 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Based on papers presented at 2 consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 201-207.
- Contents
- Feminist perceptions 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 Solomon Islands, 1900-1942, accomodation and change on the Pacific frontier / James A. Boutilier.
- Call Number
- JLE 85-728
- ISBN
- 0520051424
- LCCN
- 83024213
- OCLC
- 10273876
- 10273876
- Title
- Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific / edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: p. 201-207.
- Added Author
- O'Brien, Denise.Tiffany, Sharon W.Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
- Research Call Number
- JLE 85-728