Gender And Fertility In Melanesia
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Gender And Fertility In Melanesia
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Author : Katsuhiko Yamaji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Gender And Fertility In Melanesia written by Katsuhiko Yamaji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Birth customs categories.
Gender In Amazonia And Melanesia
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Author : Thomas Gregor
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001-11
Gender In Amazonia And Melanesia written by Thomas Gregor and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11 with Social Science categories.
Amazonia and Melanesia are half a world in distance, yet their cultures bear similarities in the areas of sex and gender. This work looks at ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized.
Population Reproduction And Fertility In Melanesia
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Author : Stanley J. Ulijaszek
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006
Population Reproduction And Fertility In Melanesia written by Stanley J. Ulijaszek and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Health & Fitness categories.
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.
Transformations Of Gender In Melanesia
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Author : Martha Macintyre
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2017-02-06
Transformations Of Gender In Melanesia written by Martha Macintyre and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-06 with Social Science categories.
Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities. ‘This collection is a welcome addition to the study of gender in Melanesia … Collectively, the essays present complex, locally contextualised and regionally situated case studies of gender transformation occurring alongside, in many instances, the re-codification of hegemonic gendered norms and practices. Gender is not understood as simply code for women in this volume rather, the majority of chapters incorporate men and masculinities in their analysis of gender relations and dynamics. A highlight of the collection is the attention paid to how “the politics of tradition” (and of modernity) are expressed through morally loaded concepts of the “good” or “bad” woman or man and vice versa.’ — Kalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne
The Gender Of The Gift
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Author : Marilyn Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988-09-15
The Gender Of The Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09-15 with Social Science categories.
In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.
Dealing With Inequality
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Author : Marilyn Strathern
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1987-12-10
Dealing With Inequality written by Marilyn Strathern and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-12-10 with Social Science categories.
This 1987 volume comprises ten essays by anthropologists who interrogate the nature of social inequality between the sexes in societies mostly in Melanesia.
Economic Citizenship
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Author : Amalia Sa’ar
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-07-01
Economic Citizenship written by Amalia Sa’ar and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Social Science categories.
With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Businesses, municipalities, grassroots activists, and state functionaries share in projects meant to help vulnerable populations become self-supportive. Ironically, such projects produce odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and place the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism. Using theoretical concepts of economic citizenship and emotional capitalism, Economic Citizenship exposes the paradoxes that are deep within neoliberal interpretations of citizenship and analyzes the unexpected consequences of applying globally circulating notions to concrete local contexts.
Cultures And Contexts Matter
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Author : Carol Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Release Date : 2007
Cultures And Contexts Matter written by Carol Jenkins and has been published by Asian Development Bank this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with AIDS (Disease) categories.
Gender Rituals
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Author : Nancy Lutkehaus
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Gender Rituals written by Nancy Lutkehaus and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Social Science categories.
This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.
Ritualized Homosexuality In Melanesia
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Author : Gilbert H. Herdt
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Ritualized Homosexuality In Melanesia written by Gilbert H. Herdt and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Social Science categories.
This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings.