Book
The real and ideal participation in decision-making of Iban women: a study of a longhouse community in Sarawak, east Malaysia
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1973 • Pages:
By: Komanyi, Margit Ilona.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation questions '…what are the underlying cultural factors that permit Asian women to occupy high political offices in their societies?' (p. i). To answer this question Komanyi conducted a field study among the Ibans. The work identifies those specific norms that indicate the ideal vs. the real degree to which women participate in decision-making in Iban society. Komanyi describes Iban ethnology dealing with geography, history, language, house types, kinship and social organization, agriculture, religion, and life-cycle events. These data occupy a major portion of this study (chapters i-iv), with the actual evaluation of the findings appearing only in chapter v.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Linguistic identification
- Cereal agriculture
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Social relationships and groups
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- General character of religion
- Childbirth
- Difficult and unusual births
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iban
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Book
- 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
- John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- 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)
- Saribas District, Second Division, Samu longhouse, Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margit Ilona Komanyi
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- New York University, 1973
- UM-73-8177
- Bibliography: p. 129-135
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)