Book
Women of value, men of renown: new perspectives in Trobriand exchange
University of Texas Press • Austin, Tex. • Published In 1976 • Pages:
By: Weiner, Annette B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The emphasis in this work is on the differential responses of men and women in their relationships to each other through the cycle of life and death. Weiner also discusses the roles of men and women, a topic given little coverage by Malinowski. Data are presented on the internal exchanges of female and male wealth at the hamlet level, a general overview of Kiriwina today, the significance of the levels of organization of Trobriand social life, life cycle events, death rituals, child and adolescent development, exchange events particularly in reference to father-son relations, land tenure, the annual yam distribution from men to women, and the distribution of women's wealth in mortuary ceremonies. The monograph concludes with a discussion of the nature of Trobriand exchange and an evaluation of female and male domains of power.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Mourning
- Gift giving
- Lineages
- Clans
- Social relationships and groups
- Vegetable production
- Real property
- Marriage
- Accumulation of wealth
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- 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.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- June-October 1971, May-November 1972 [p. xv]
- 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)
- Kwaibwaga, Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Annette B. Weiner
- Bibliography: p. [261]-273
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76014847
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders