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1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Fieldwork : motivations, plans, and realities -- The environmental and social landscape : the Lau Islands, Fiji -- Foodways and social relations in the past and present -- Food consumption patterns and refuse disposal -- Lauan fishing -- Food in the Lau Islands and its implications for ethnoarchaeology and archaeology. |
Summary |
Food and Gender in Fiji is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of the social relations surrounding foodways on the island of Nayau in Fiji. Writing from the perspective of an archaeologist, Jones answers questions raised by her archaeological research using original ethnographic data and material culture associated women and fishing, the intersection that forms the basis of the subsistence economy on Nayau. She focuses on food procurement on the reef, domestic activities surrounding foodways, and household spatial patterns to explore the meaning of food amongst the Lau Group of Fiji beyond th. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Food habits -- Fiji -- Lau Province.
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Food habits. |
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Fiji -- Lau Province. |
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Food consumption -- Fiji -- Lau Province.
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Food consumption. |
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Women -- Fiji -- Lau Province -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Sex role -- Fiji -- Lau Province.
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Sex role. |
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Ethnoarchaeology -- Fiji -- Lau Province.
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Ethnoarchaeology. |
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Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Fiji -- Lau Province.
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Plant remains (Archaeology) |
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Fish remains (Archaeology) -- Fiji -- Lau Province.
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Fish remains (Archaeology) |
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Lau Province (Fiji) -- Antiquities.
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Lau Province (Fiji) -- Social life and customs.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Sharyn, 1974- Food and gender in Fiji. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739134801 0739134809 (DLC) 2009017860 (OCoLC)320954270 |
ISBN |
9780739134825 (electronic book) |
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0739134825 (electronic book) |
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0739134809 |
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9780739134801 |
Standard No. |
9786612494314 |
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