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Women of value, men of renownBook 1976 • Weiner, Annette B.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
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 ...The Trobrianders of Papua New GuineaBook 1988 • Weiner, Annette B.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This book explores the relationship '…between power and death as men and women, each in their own way, with their own valuables, confront the eternal problem of sustaining hierarchial relations in the face of loss and decay' (p. 13). Topics covered a...'A world of made is not a world of born'essay 1983 • Weiner, Annette B.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this paper Weiner examines the functional role of the Kula on Kiriwina Island, analyzing the processes of transformation underlying internal change. The article contains information on the organization of control and use rights to land by the DALA...Trobriand kinship from another viewarticle 1979 • Weiner, Annette B.
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This paper focuses on the brother-sister sibling set as the primary unit of analysis. Weiner, who views reproduction as a model for the organization of a society, analyzes both men and women's roles as reproductive agents. She then examines the proce...Culture summaryessay 1995 • Weiner, Annette B. & Beierle, John
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This is a culture summary of the Trobriand Islanders....