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Synopsis
Although the societies of island Southeast Asia(Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, plus Brunei and Singapore) are known for their egalitarian relations between men and women, subtle differences in power and status do exist. These differences are often difficult to conceptualize, and, consequently, the theoretical issues posed by such relatively egalitarian gender systems have been largely unexamined in Western scholarship, even thought these issues are of great importance to feminists and others interested in culture and power. This book is about difference and power as they relate to men and women in island Southeast Asia. It examines how differences between 'male' and 'female' (as gendered concepts of the person) and between men and women (as living beings engaged in activities) are constituted there in assumptions and through practices, and how power is envisioned and distributed among men and women. The book begins with a substantial theoretical essay on gender, power, and the body, which is followed by eleven studies of aspects of gender in various parts of island Southeast Asia.
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'The essays exhibit imaginative analyses of ethnographic materials in a coherent and altogether intellectually exciting manner. The excellence of the scholarship is reflected not only in the elegant analyses of the ethnographic materials but also in the careful attention to matters of theory, demonstrating a subtle interweaving of theory and data in the best traditions of anthropological interpretation. No serious study of the socio-cultural character of gender can afford to ignore it.' Fitz John Porter Poole, University of California, San Diego
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- PublisherStanford University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0804717818
- ISBN 13 9780804717816
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages520
- EditorAtkinson Jane, Errington Shelly
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Power and difference : gender in island Southeast Asia : Conference entitled "The Cultural construction of gender in island Southeast Asia : Papers
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1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiv,498p, [2]p of plates : ill ; maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Papers from a conference held Dec. 13, 1983 in Princeton, N.J. Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Southeast Asia of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. Contents: Recasting sex, gender, and power : a theoretical and regional overview / Shelly Errington -- How gender makes a difference in Wana society / Jane Monnig Atkinson -- Gender and performance in Meratus dispute settlement / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Speaking of gender in Java / Ward Keeler -- Talking about troubles : gender differences in Weyéwa ritual speech use / Joel C. Kuipers -- Theatrical imagery and gender ideology in Java / Barbara Hatley -- Balinese twins times two : gender, birth order and "househood " in Indonesia/Indo-Europe / James A. Boon -- Both nature and culture : reflections on menstrual and parturitional taboos in Huaulu (Seram) / Valerio Valeri -- Doubling deities, descent and personhood : an exploration of Kodi gender categories / Janet Hoskins -- The symbolic representation of women in a changing Batak culture / Susan Rodgers -- Collision of cultures : historical reformulations of gender in the lowland Visayas, Philippines / Cristina Blanc-Szanton -- Japanese facto. Subject: Sex roles Southeast Asia; Congresses; Power (Social sciences); Manners and customs; Asia (south-east) Society; Gender. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 392179
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Power and difference : gender in island Southeast Asia / edited by Jane Monnig Atkinson and Shelly Errington
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