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Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific
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- Creator
- edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984]
- ©1984
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520051423, 0520051424
- OCLC
- ocm10273876
- Includes index.
- Based on papers presented at 2 consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
- Bibliography: pages 201-227.
- 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