Research Catalog

Title

Gender relations in forest societies in Asia : patriarchy at odds / edited by Govind Kelkar, Dev Nathan, Pierre Walter.

Publication

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Kelkar, Govind, 1939-
• Nathan, Dev.
• Walter, Pierre (Pierre Gilbert)

Description

325 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Matrilineal kinship > South Asia
• Patriarchy > South Asia
• Rain forest people > South Asia
• Sex role > South Asia
• South Asia > Social conditions
• Women in forestry > South Asia
• Women in sustainable development > South Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Gender roles in history : women as hunters / K.S. Singh -- The fireplace : gender and culture among Yunnan nationalities / Yang Fuquan -- Shu : Naxi nature goddesses archetype / Xi Yuhua -- Appropriation of women's indigenous knowledge : the case of the matrilineal Lua in Northern Thailand / Cholthira Satyawadhana -- Gender relations and witches among the indigenous communities of Jharkhand, India / Samar Bosu Mullick -- Forest management in Mosua matrilineal society, Yunnan, China / He Zhonghua -- Naxi women : protection and management of forests in Lijiang, China / Yang Fuquan and Xi Yuhua -- Bobolizan, forests and gender relations in Sabah, Malaysia / Paul Porodong -- Khasi women and matriliny : transformations in gender relations / Tiplut Nongbri -- Women and forest : a study of the Warlis of western India / Indra Munshi -- Empowerment and disempowerment of forest women in Uttarakhand, India / Madhu Sarin.

ISBN

• 0761997830 (Cloth)
• 8178292513 (India : Hb)
• 9780761997832

LCCN

^^2003014697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library