Transformations Of Gender In Melanesia
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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
Transformation Of Gender In Melanesia
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Author : Martha Macintyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-03
Transformation Of Gender In Melanesia written by Martha Macintyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with Culture and globalization 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.
The Gender Of The Gift
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Author : Marilyn Strathern
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988
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 with Social Science categories.
Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia 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 humour, the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.
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.
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.
Dealing With Inequality
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Author : Marilyn Strathern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Dealing With Inequality written by Marilyn Strathern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Equality categories.
The Making Of Global And Local Modernities In Melanesia
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Author : Holly Wardlow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Making Of Global And Local Modernities In Melanesia written by Holly Wardlow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Social Science categories.
Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.
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 Rituals
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Author : Nancy Lutkehaus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Gender Rituals written by Nancy Lutkehaus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 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.
Fish Don T Talk About The Water
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Author : Carla Risseeuw
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-08-14
Fish Don T Talk About The Water written by Carla Risseeuw and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with Science categories.