Power & Difference. Gender in Island Southeast Asia

Atkinson, Jane Monnig & Errington, Shelly, editors:

Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990

About this Item

22x14cm, xv,(2),498 pp Contains 12 papers. Includes: Shelly Errington "Recasting Sex, Gender, and Power: A Theoretical & Regional Overview"; Jane Monnig Atkinson "How Gender Makes a Difference in Wana Society"; Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing "Gender and Performance in Meratus Dispute Settlement"; Ward Keeler "Speaking of Gender in Java"; Joel C. Kuipers "Talking about Troubles: Gender Differences in Weyewa Ritual Speech Use"; Barbara Hartley "Theatrical Imagery and Gender Ideology in Java"; James A. Boon "Balinese Twins Times Two: Gender, Birth Order, and "Household" in Indonesia/ Indo-Europe"; Valerio Valeri "Both Nature & Culture: Reflections on Menstrual and Parturitional Taboos in Huaulu (Seram)"; Janet Hoskins "Doubling Deities, Descent, and Personhood: An Exploration of Kodi Gender Categories"; Susan Rodgers "The Symbolic Representation of Women in a Changing Batak Culture";Cristina Blanc-Szanton "Collision of Cultures: Historical Reformulations of Gender in Lowland Visayas, Philippines"; Aihwa Ong "Japanese Factories, Malay Workers: Class & Sexual Metaphors in West Malaysia". Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power & Difference. Gender in Island Southeast Asia
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford
• Publication Date: 1990
• Binding: orig.cloth
• Illustrator: Textual maps
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social anthropology