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Khmer village women in Cambodia: a happy balance
Many sisters; women in cross-cultural perspective • New York • Published In 1974 • Pages: 305-347
By: Ebihara, May, Matthiasson, Carolyn J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses gender and the status of elderly women in a Cambodian village. It shows that elderly women who were mothers to influential men in the village played critical roles in decision making including the author's (anthropologist May Ebihara) own acceptance and subsequent experiencs in the village. The author built on this observation to argue that the active role of these elderly women functioned as check on the power of men in local politics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community structure
- Gender status
- Status and treatment of the aged
- Social relationships and groups
- Community councils
- Family relationships
- Status, role, and prestige
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cambodians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cambodia
- NotesAdditional notes
- May Ebihara
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-347)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74002654
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cambodia--Social life and customs