Women as Unseen Characters
Subtitle: Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea (Social Anthropology in Oceania)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780812237894
Subjects: Customs; Social & cultural anthropology; Women, Sambia; Sambia (Papua New Guinean people); Kukukuku (Papua New Guinea peo; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Papua New Guinea; Anthropology - Cultural; Gender Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people); Rites and ceremonies; Sambia (Papua New Guinea peopl; Social conditions
First sentence: The interpretation of gender positionality and hegemony have long been debated in the literature, with scholars differing on the degree to which material or ideological factors, or religious and ritual factors, or both, are primary in how men and women interact.