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Title: Rethinking women's roles : perspectives from the Pacific / edited by Denise O'Brien and Sharon W. Tiffany.
Author: O'Brien, Denise.
Tiffany, Sharon W.
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
General Notes: Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania., Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
Includes index., Based on papers presented at two consecutive meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

Publisher: University of California Press,
Publication Place: Berkeley :
ISBN: 0520051424
Subject: Women -- Melanesia -- Congresses.
Sex role -- Melanesia -- Congresses.
Women -- Oceania -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Methodology -- Congresses.
Feminist anthropology.
Melanesia -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Oceania -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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.

Physical Description: xiii, 237 p. : ill., maps ;

Publication Date: c1984.

	Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Item Notes:	Barcode:	Media Type:
	Yarmouk	General	GN668 .R45 1984	Normal Circulation	Available	الكتاب موجود في الطابق الأول	YU139374	Book