Transformations Of Gender In Melanesia

Author : Martha Macintyre
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460893
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformations of Gender in Melanesia written by Martha Macintyre and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities. ‘This collection is a welcome addition to the study of gender in Melanesia … Collectively, the essays present complex, locally contextualised and regionally situated case studies of gender transformation occurring alongside, in many instances, the re-codification of hegemonic gendered norms and practices. Gender is not understood as simply code for women in this volume rather, the majority of chapters incorporate men and masculinities in their analysis of gender relations and dynamics. A highlight of the collection is the attention paid to how “the politics of tradition” (and of modernity) are expressed through morally loaded concepts of the “good” or “bad” woman or man and vice versa.’ — Kalissa Alexeyeff, University of Melbourne

Author : Martha Macintyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781760460884
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformation of Gender in Melanesia written by Martha Macintyre and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also by continuing the effort to explain and understand gender inequities in the Pacific through reference to the concept of societies in transition. The contributors discuss emerging masculinities and femininities in the Pacific in order to chart the development of these in their contexts. Exploring how contemporary Pacific identities are shaped by local contexts and traditions, they focus on how these are remade through interaction with global ideas, images and practices, including new forms of Christianity and economic transformations. Grounded in recent, original research in both the villages and towns of Melanesia, the collection engages with the study of gender in Melanesia as well as scholarship on global modernities.

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520072022
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gender of the Gift written by Marilyn Strathern and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness, and with equal good humour, the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life.

Author : Thomas Gregor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520228529
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia written by Thomas Gregor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonia and Melanesia are half a world in distance, yet their cultures bear similarities in the areas of sex and gender. This work looks at ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized.

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521336529
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Inequality written by Marilyn Strathern and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-12-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1987 volume comprises ten essays by anthropologists who interrogate the nature of social inequality between the sexes in societies mostly in Melanesia.

Author : Nancy Lutkehaus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136657355
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Rituals written by Nancy Lutkehaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.

Author : Marilyn Strathern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Inequality written by Marilyn Strathern and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Holly Wardlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351886215
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia written by Holly Wardlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and globalizing forces. They acknowledge the importance of Sahlins' ideas, while refining, extending, modifying and critiquing them in light of their own first hand knowledge of Pacific island societies. Also presenting one of Sahlins' less widely available original essays for reference, this book is an exciting contribution to serious anthropological engagement with Papua New Guinea.

Author : Eric Hirsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131552967X
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Melanesian World written by Eric Hirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.

Author : Chuck Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144086795X
Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Identity around the World [2 volumes] written by Chuck Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an indispensable resource for high school and college students interested in the history and current status of gender identity formation and maintenance and how it impacts LGBTQ rights throughout the world. Gender and Identity around the World explores a variety of gender and LGBTQ experiences and issues in countries from all the world's regions. Guided by more than 50 recognized academic experts, readers will examine how gender and LGBTQ identities are developed, fought for, perceived, and policed in countries as diverse as France, Brazil, Russia, Jordan, Iraq, and China. Each chapter opens with a general introduction to a country or group of countries and flows into a discussion of gender and identity in terms of culture, education, family life, health and wellness, law, work, and activism in that region of the world. A section on contemporary issues specific to the country or group of countries follows this discussion.