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Subject(s)

• Sex role—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]
• Sex differences—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]
• Social status—Cross-cultural studies [Browse]
• Primates—Behavior [Browse]

Related name

• Miller, Barbara D., 1948- [Browse]

Series

• Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 4. [More in this series]
• Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 4 [More in this series]

Summary note

"A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles - and expectations - of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of comparison to include female/male relationships among non-human primates and introducing fresh case studies which range from lemurs to hominids, from Japanese peasants to male strippers in Florida, from skeletal remains of a Korean queen to mother/child conversations in Samoa. They document the rich and often surprising diversity in sex and gender hierarchies among both humans and non-human primates."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The anthropology of sex and gender hierarchies / Barbara Diane Miller
• Sex differences and gender hierarchies among primates : an evolutionary perspective / Adrienne L. Zihlman
• The evolution of human gender hierarchies : a trial formulation / Marvin Harris
• Blood : cultural effectiveness of biological conditions / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
• Reproduction and gender hierarchy : amniocentesis in America / Rayna Rapp
• Variations in male-female dominance and offspring care in non-human primates / Patricia Chapple Wright
• Indexing gender / Elinor Ochs
• The politics of polygyny in Mende education and child fosterage transactions / Caroline Bledsoe
• Sexual repression, social control, and gender hierarchy in Sambia culture / Gilbert Herdt
• Primatological perspectives on gender hierarchies / Joan B. Silk.
• Conjugal power in Tokugawa Japanese families : a matter of life or death / G. William Skinner
• Skeletal evidence for sex roles and gender hierarchies in prehistory / Mark Nathan Cohen and Sharon Bennett
• Gender hierarchy and the queens of Silla / Sarah M. Nelson
• Gender hierarchy in Burma : cultural, social, and psychological dimensions / Melford E. Spiro
• Turning the tables? : male strippers and the gender hierarchy in America / Maxine L. Margolis and Marigene Arnold
• Women in Samoan history : a further critique of Derek Freeman / Eleanor Leacock
• Sanskritization as female oppression in India / Gerald D. Berreman.

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ISBN

• 0521412978
• 0521423686 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91044144^

OCLC

25008121

RCP

H - S

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