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Matrons and mistresses: women and boundaries in two Middle Eastern tribal societies
Archives Europeennes de Sociologie • 21 • Published In 1980 • Pages: 59-79
By: Lindisfarne-Tapper, Nancy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comparative study of the status of women among the Durrani Pashtun of north-central Afghanistan and the Shahsevan of north-western Iran. The author discusses the similarities in the status of women in these two societies as it relates to the control of economic and political resources and the differences in the status of women as it relates to the degree of sexual segregation, the character of marriage transactions and the importance of marriage in economic and political affairs, and in the ideals held by men and women about the roles and character of women. The author suggests that the differences in women's status in these two groups is linked to each group's experience of ethnic boundaries and intra-ethnic group hierarchy and authority.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Social relationships and groups
- Basis of marriage
- Regulation of marriage
- Tribe and nation
- Comparative evidence
- Status, role, and prestige
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pashtun
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1971-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Durrani Pashtuns, north-central Afghanistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nancy Tapper
- Information on the Shahsevan has been indexed for Comparative Evidence (171).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 79)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64027672
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pushtuns