Gender And Society In The New Guinea Highlands
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antagonism forms
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Big Man
Carrying Capacity
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Complex Reticulation
Conflicting Loyalties
Critical Carrying Capacity
cross-cultural gender analysis
Eastern Highlands
endemic warfare
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Fore Men
gender inequality
Guinea Highlands
Highland Groups
Highland Men
Highland social organization
Highland Societies
Husband's Group
Hysterical Psychoses
In-marrying Women
Intensified Methods
intersexual hostility
intersexual hostility in New Guinea Highlands
Mae Enga
Male Solidarity
Melanesian anthropology
Net Reproduction Rate
Normative Personality Characteristics
Patrilineal Ideology
population regulation
Regulate Population Size
sex roles theory
sociopolitical structures
Spacing Period
Vice Versa
violence against women studies
Western Highlands
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367011345
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The societies of the New Guinea Highlands are among the last-contacted horticulturalist peoples of the world. Endemic warfare, elaborate systems of exchange, flamboyant personality styles, and exaggerated forms of antagonism between the sexes have made them a subject of interest to anthropologists for three decades. This book examines the relationship between the sexes, especially the attitudes and behavior of men toward women, as a result of the economic, political, and structural constraints of Highland social organization. Hostility toward women, which is evident in a high level of violence toward women and an articulated fear of association with them, is given special attention. Dr. Gelber's study is unique not only because it treats gender relations in the entire culture area of the Highlands, but also because a broad array of types of anthropological analysis—ecosystemic, population-regulatory, economic, sociopolitical, psychological, and ideational—are considered for their relevance to the phenomenon of intersexual hostility. The author's emphasis on underlying problems of explanation and theory, as well as the treatment of attitudes and beliefs as a function of socioeconomic constraints, is a departure from previous modes of analysis and raises new issues in anthropological theory and in the study of gender.
Marilyn G. Gelber received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has worked as a consultant anthropologist for the World Bank.
