essay
Women's roles and existential identities
Beyond the sex: new directions in the anthropology of gender • Philadelphia • Published In 1990 • Pages: 75-98
By: Kopytoff, Igor.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses traditional Suku cultural meanings and roles associated with womanhood and gender-based division of labor. It is argued that, compared to the United States of America and culturally related Western countries, Suku society provides relatively fewer constraints for women to freely assert themselves and move into positions of power. The author attributes this difference to long-standing cultural distinctions between culturally shared expectations of womanhood and the actual roles of individual women.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender roles and issues
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Basis of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Lineages
- Social personality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Suku
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- 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; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kwango district, Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NotesAdditional notes
- Igor Kopytoff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-98)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90030497
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Suku (African people)