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Author Lepowsky, Maria Alexandra.

Title Fruit of the motherland : gender in an egalitarian society / Maria Lepowsky
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1993]
©1993

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 W'PONDS  305.309953 Lep/Fot  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Island Encounters -- 2. Fruit of the Motherland -- 3. Island Lives -- 4. Ancestors and Other Spirits -- 5. Sorcerers and Witches -- 6. The Living, the Dead, and Relations of Value -- 7. Fruit of the Dead -- 8. Gender and Power
Analysis Gender studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-363) and index
Subject Equality -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea -- Tagula Island.
Feminist anthropology -- Papua New Guinea -- Tagula Island.
Gender identity -- Papua New Guinea -- Tagula Island.
Gender studies
Matrilineal kinship -- Papua New Guinea -- Tagula Island.
Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Tagula Island.
Tagula (Papua New Guinean people) -- Kinship.
Tagula (Papua New Guinean people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Tagula (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
SUBJECT Tagula Island (Papua New Guinea) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93003163 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
LC no. 93008314
ISBN 0231081200 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0231081219 (paperback)