Rethinking women's roles
Subtitle: perspectives from the Pacific
By: edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany.
Contributors: O'Brien, Denise.; Tiffany, Sharon W.; Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Women -- Melanesia -- Congresses.; Sex role -- Melanesia -- Congresses.; Women -- Oceania -- Congresses.; Ethnology -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Feminist anthropology.; Melanesia -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Oceania -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 201-227.
Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Feminist perceptions in anthropology / Sharon W. Tiffany; title: Domesticity and the denigration of women / Marilyn Strathern; title: Complementarity, the relationship between female and male in the East Sepik Village of Bun, Papua New Guinea / Nancy McDowell; title: "Women never hunt," the portrayal of women in Melanesian ethnography / Denise O'Brien; title: Revenge suicide by Lusi women, an expression of power / Dorothy Ayers Counts; title: Women, work, and change in Nagovisi / Jill Nash; title: Pigs, pearlshells, and "women's work," collective response to change in Highland Papua New Guinea / Lorraine Dusak Sexton; title: "Sing to the Lord a new song," women in the churches of Oceania / Charles W. Forman; title: European women in the Solomons Islands, 1900-1942, accommodation and change on the Pacific frontier / James A. Boutilier.