Power & Difference. Gender in Island Southeast Asia

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. …