Book
The symbolic role of women in Trobriand gardening
University of South Africa • Pretoria • Published In 1984 • Pages: viii, 123
By: Brindley, Marianne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Brindley is concerned with the status of women and especially the position of Trobriand women with reference to gardening. Gardening, especially in terms of growing the small yam (TAYTU), is one of the most important economic activities in the Trobriand Islands, and therefore was selected as the primary focus of this work. In studying the position of Trobriand women in horticultural activities, the Brindley considers not only the physical labor involved, but also the symbolism that dominates gardening and women's relationship to it, including a structural analysis of the language of ritual and the terminology of gardening. The position of women in gardening is then correlated with the position of women as a whole in the society by considering certain dominant cultural themes and the interrelationships with different aspects of the culture (p. 3).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Gift giving
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Magic
- Magicians and diviners
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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)
- Omarakana village, Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Marianne Brindley
- Revised version of a dissertation for the M.A. degree at the University of South Africa, 1977
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. 106-118
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Women in agriculture/Trobriand Islanders