Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific / edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• O'Brien, Denise.
• Tiffany, Sharon W.
• Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

Description

xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Women > Melanesia > Congresses
• Sex role > Melanesia > Congresses
• Women > Oceania > Congresses
• Ethnology > Methodology > Congresses
• Feminist anthropology
• Ethnology > Methodology
• Sex role
• Social conditions
• Women
• Frau
• Kongress
• Melanesia > Social conditions > Congresses
• Oceania > Social conditions > Congresses
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Melanesien

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Galveston (Tex., 1980)

Note

• Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 201-227.

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, accommodation and change on the Pacific frontier / James A. Boutilier.

ISBN

• 0520051424
• 9780520051423

LCCN

83024213

OCLC

• ocm10273876
• 10273876
• SCSB-616225

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library