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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2006
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Polynesia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2004
- Field Date
- 1986
- Coverage Date
- 1600-1800
- Coverage Place
- Tonga
- Notes
- Christine Ward Gailey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-322)
- LCCN
- 79015318
- LCSH
- Tongans