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

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Other Authors:	O'Brien, Denise, Tiffany, Sharon W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.
Subjects:	Women > Melanesia > Congresses. Sex role > Melanesia > Congresses. Women > Oceania > Congresses. Ethnology > Methodology > Congresses. Melanesia > Social conditions > Congresses. Oceania > Social conditions > Congresses.

Table of 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 Solomons Islands, 1900-1942, accommodation and change on the Pacific frontier / James A. Boutilier.

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