Dealing with inequality
Subtitle: analysing gender relations in Melanesia and beyond : essays by members of the 1983/1984 Anthropological Research Group at the Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University
By: edited by Marilyn Strathern.
Contributors: Strathern, Marilyn.; Australian National University. Anthropological Research Group.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Ethnology -- Melanesia; Sex role -- Melanesia; Equality -- Melanesia; Melanesians -- Social life and customs
Notes: Bibliography: p. 303-318.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Ta'a geni / Roger M. Keesing; title: The remarriage of Yebiwali / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz; title: Gender difference and the relations of inequality in Zinacantan / Leslie Devereaux; title: The politics of separation / Diane Bell; title: Women are our business / Ann Chowning; title: Gender attributes and equality / Jill Nash; title: Complementarity in this world and the next / Janet Hoskins; title: Flying witches and leaping warriors / Martha Macintyre; title: The tusk, the flute, and the serpent / Michael W. Young; title: Diseases of the soul / James F. Weiner.