essay
The power of weakness
Key issues in hunter-gather research • Oxford [england] • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: Sharp, Henry S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this paper, Sharp interprets the behavior surrounding a marital dispute in terms of gender complimentarity, rather than male dominance. The dispute is between a husband, who pours himself a drink, and his wife, who quickly runs to the home of her children and has a fit. The husband puts the bottle away when his children intercede. His wife then recovers. According to Sharp the wrong interpretation would be to see the wife as reacting to a pattern of marital abuse. Rather Sharp interprets the wife's performance as an effective exercise of power. By displaying her vulnerability, the wife is attempting to reassert the protective and productive role of the husband, which his drinking threatens to undermine. Such a round about way of influencing another person's behavior is typical in a society in which direct intervention is considered a violation of one's personal integrity. This document contains the 48-page bibliography for the collected volume "Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research."
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Gender status
- Ethnic stratification
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Family relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not Specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Black Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henry S. Sharp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. )
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93018011
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians