essay
Putting down sisters and wives: Tongan women and colonization
Women and colonization : anthropological perspectives • Praeger • Published In 1980 • Pages: 294-322
By: Gailey, Christine Ward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a summary of the second part of Gailey's larger work (see document no. 113) on gender and state formation in Tonga. It focuses on gender relations in the precontact and colonial periods. As Gailey argues here and elsewhere, sisterhood was a powerful dyadic relationship in the Tongan kinship system, which defined work groups, exchange networks, and wider kin group relationships. Gailey discuses how sisterhood came under attack from missionaries who emphasized the husband-wife dyad and laws that changed property rights in favor of men.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Real property
- Gift giving
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Status, role, and prestige
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Avuncular and nepotic relatives
- Legal norms
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1600-1800
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christine Ward Gailey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-322)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79015318
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans