Women Among Women: Anthropological Perspectives on Female Age HierarchiesJeanette Dickerson-Putman, Judith K. Brown Are the prerogatives of age universal? This first-ever anthropological exploration of relationships between older and younger women suggests that this may be the case. Cross-cultural in nature, the volume looks at relationships between women of different age groups in a village in Taiwan, a town in central Sudan, a rural setting in western Kenya, an Andean peasant community, a horticultural village in Melanesia, and an Aboriginal community in Australia. Adding an interspecies perspective is a study of two age groups of Japanese Macaques. Included is an ethnographic bibliography that lists books with a wealth of information on women in sixty societies. The volume will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to readers interested in women's issues, gender studies, life course studies, gerontology, and intergenerational relations. |
Contents
The Intersection of Class and Age MotherinLawDaughterinLaw Relations in Rural Taiwan | xix |
Gender and Alliance in Central Sudan | 13 |
Nowadays It Isnt Easy to Advise the Young Grandmothers and Granddaughters among Abaluyia of Kenya | 28 |
Womens Hierarchies of Age and Suffering in an Andean Community | 50 |
Old Women at the Top An Exploration of Age Stratification among Bena Bena Women | 63 |
Womens IntraGender Relationships and Disciplinary Aggression in an Australian Aboriginal Community | 76 |
The Nonhuman Primate Perspective Old Age Kinship and Social Partners in a Monkey Society | 87 |
Being in Charge Older Women and Their Younger Female Kin | 98 |
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Contributors | 139 |
Index | 140 |
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Abaluyia Aboriginal adult Africa age hierarchies age stratification Anthropology Aymara behavior Bena Bena bride Busia District Cambridge Cattell consequent variables contribution Cross-Cultural Cultural daughter daughters-in-law Development Dickerson-Putman disciplinary aggression domestic dominance Eastern Highlands Province economic elders ethnographic Foner frequency Gallin Ganaga gender Gerontology girls grandchildren grandmothers and granddaughters grandparents Highlands household Hsin Hsing human husband Inequality intergenerational relations J.K. Brown Japanese macaque Kenya Kerns Kilbride kinship labor lives male Maroni River marriage married menopause Middle-Aged Women mother mother-in-law mother-in-law/daughter-in-law Murdock Nagovisi nonhuman primate old age older and younger older women organization Papua New Guinea patrilineal patrilocal residence Perspectives pre-contact primates relationships relative Research rituals role rural Samia sample Sennar sexual sister social network societies Stanford status Strathern subsistence activities Sudan Sudanese Taiwan Tlingit University Press urban Utani Views of Middle-Aged village wives woman York young wife younger female kin younger women
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures Topics ... Carol R. Ember,Melvin Ember No preview available - 2003 |