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Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea

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Women in Between

Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea

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In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Between. Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuses on gender relations rather than on women alone. Re-issued now, Women in Between examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyzes the power of women in their male-dominated system. Strathern cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce, and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Producers and Transactors
Chapter 2 Hagen Society
Chapter 3 Residence and Work: The Woman with Her Husband's Kin
Chapter 4 The Household
Chapter 5 The Roads of Marriage
Chapter 6 Kin at Her Back
Chapter 7 Producers and Transactors
Part 8 Part II: The Independent Woman
Chapter 9 Pollution and Poison
Chapter 10 Marital Stability
Chapter 11 Focus for Blame
Chapter 12 Settlement of Disputes
Chapter 13 Judicial Status
Chapter 14 Status, Incorporation and Commitment
Chapter 15 Appendices

Product details

Published May 02 1995
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 392
ISBN 9780847677856
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 228 x 151 mm
Series Classics in Anthropology
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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