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Title Dealing with inequality : 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 / edited by Marilyn Strathern.

Publication Info. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  GN668 .D42 1987    Available  ---
Description xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 303-318.
Note Includes index.
Contents Ta'a geni / Roger M. Keesing -- The remarriage of Yebiwali / Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz -- Gender difference and the relations of inequality in Zinacantan / Leslie Devereaux -- The politics of separation / Diane Bell -- Women are our business / Ann Chowning -- Gender attributes and equality / Jill Nash -- Complementarity in this world and the next / Janet Hoskins -- Flying witches and leaping warriors / Martha Macintyre -- The tusk, the flute, and the serpent / Michael W. Young -- Diseases of the soul / James F. Weiner.
Subject Ethnology -- Melanesia.
Ethnology.
Melanesia.
Sex role -- Melanesia.
Sex role.
Equality -- Melanesia.
Equality.
Melanesians -- Social life and customs.
Melanesians -- Social life and customs.
Melanesians.
Gender roles.
Added Author Strathern, Marilyn.
Australian National University. Anthropological Research Group.
ISBN 0521333784
052133652X paperback