Women in Between

Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea

By:

Marilyn Strathern

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Classics in Anthropology

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This ethnographic text, first published in 1971, is re-issued with a new foreword by Deborah Cewertz. The book examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyses the power of women in their male-dominated system. Strathern cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society. There is a war between the sexes in Hagen which has the result of allowing women, within the terms of the system, a degree of independence.

Author Biography:

Marilyn Strathern is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Among her many writings are The Gender of the Gift (University of California Press) Kinship at the Core (Cambridge University Press), and Partial Connections (Rowman & Littlefield).

Release date NZ

May 2nd, 1995

Author

Marilyn Strathern

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

392

Series

Classics in Anthropology

Dimensions

151x228x30

ISBN-13

9780847677856

Product ID

5327845

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