Dealing with inequality analysing gender relations in Melanesia and beyond /

Dealing with inequality analysing gender relations in Melanesia and beyond / [Texte imprimé] : edited by Marilyn Strathern - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987 - 1 vol. (XIV-325 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

"Essays by members of the 1983/1984 Anthropological Research Group at the Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University"

Bibliogr. p. 303-318

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

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Ethnology / Melanesia Sex role / Melanesia Equality / Melanesia Melanesians / Social life and customs

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