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Rethinking

Women's Roles:

Perspectives

from the

Pacific

edited by

Denise O'Brien

and

Sharon W. Tiffany


1984

Berkeley: University of California Press
from 1980 Symposium
1. Introduction: Feminist Perceptions in Anthropology
Sharon W. Tiffany
 
2. Domesticity and the Denigration of Women
Marilyn Strathern
 
3. Complementarity: The Relationshp between Female and Male in the East Sepik Village of Bun, Papua New Guinea
Nancy McDowell
 
4. "Women Never Hunt": The Portrayal of Women in Melanesian Ethnography
Denise O'Brien
 
5. Revenge Suicide by Lusi Women: An Expression of Power
Dorothy Ayers Counts
 
6. Women, Work, and Change in Nagovisi
Jill Nash
 
7. Pigs, Pearlshells, and 'Women's Work': Collective Response to Change in Highland Papua New Guinea
Lorraine Dusak Sexton
 
8. "Sing to the Lord a New Song": Women in the Churches of Oceania
Charles W. Forman
 
9. European Women in the Solomon Islands, 1900-1942: Accommodation and Chagne on the Pacific Frontier
James A. Boutilier

     

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