Fruit of the Motherland Gender in an Egalitarian Society

Name: Fruit of the Motherland Gender in an Egalitarian Society
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ISBN: 9780231081214

ISBN-10: 0231081219

ISBN-13: 9780231081214

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Authors: Maria Lepowsky, Maria Lepowsky

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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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/24/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 383
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.89" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.452



Preface


Maps



Island Encounters



Fruit of the Motherland



Island Lives



Ancestors and Other Spirits



Sorcerers and Witches



The Living, the Dead, and Relations of Value



Fruit of the Dead



Gender and Power


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index