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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 383 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231081219
Release Date: Jan 2, 1994
| |  | | | In Brief
An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.
| | | | From The Publisher
Challenging the portrayal of sexual inequality as a universal condition, Lepowsky presents a vivid account of Vanatinai, a matrilineal society in New Guinea.Contradticting scholars who consider sexual inequality a universal condition, Fruit of the Motherland reveals an exceptional society in which women have equivalent access to power and prestige and significant control over the means of production. Lepowsky presents an ethnography of Vanatinai, a matrilineal, decentralized society in New Guinea where there is no ideology of male dominance and women and men are considered fundamentally equal. tracing the life cycle of islanders of both sexes, she examines the role of gender in thye Vanatinai's: social life and history, religious philosophy and worldview, practice of ceremonial exchange and ritual. In addition, Fruit of the Motherland includes useful cross-cultural analysis of gender roles, ideologies, and power.
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| | | |  | | | | Preface | | | Maps | | | 1 | Island Encounters | 1 | | 2 | Fruit of the Motherland | 31 | | 3 | Island Lives | 81 | | 4 | Ancestors and Other Spirits | 125 | | 5 | Sorcerers and Witches | 167 | | 6 | The Living, the Dead, and Relations of Value | 206 | | 7 | Fruit of the Dead | 241 | | 8 | Gender and Power | 281 | | Notes | 307 | | Glossary | 331 | | Bibliography | 345 | | Index | 365 |
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Tagula (Papua New Guinea peopl, Kinship, Rites and ceremonies, Social life and customs, Matrilineal kinship, Sociology, Social Science, Gender Studies, Social life and customs, Social aspects, Sex role, Equality, Papua New Guinea, Rites and ceremonies, Kinship, Gender identity, Feminist anthropology, Tagula (Papua New Guinea people)
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