Nine Mayan women
Book 1976 Elmendorf, Mary L. (Mary Lindsay)

Maya (Yucatán Peninsula)Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a very personal study of Chan Kom in the early seventies prior to the building of the road which connected the village to the city of Merida. It focusses on the lives of nine women, all related to the village's patriarch. In the first part, E...

Resource exploitation and the tenure of land and sea in Palau
Book 1989 McCutcheon, Mary S. (Mary Shaw)

BelauOceania > Micronesia
This dissertation investigates the relationship between land tenure and the incentive to invest in the profit from land as a means of both refining cultural ecological theory, and, from a more practical standpoint, evaluation of various land reform p...

Dogon culture
article 1968 Douglas, Mary

DogonAfrica > Western Africa
This short article is actually a book review by an anthropologist who is Reader in Anthropology at University College, London, of the book ‘Le Renard Pâle’, written by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, and the book ‘Ethnologie et Langage' by Gen...

Navajo ways in government
Book 1963 Shepardson, Mary

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This source is a study of the process of '… the institutionalization of a modern political system in a society that traditionally lacked centralized authority and concrete units of government' (p. 3), i.e., it is the study of the Navajo Tribal Counci...

Development of Navajo tribal government
essay 1983 Shepardson, Mary

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This source is concerned with the origin and the development of the Navajo Tribal Council from its earliest days until the early 1970's, a period in which the Navajo collectively pressed land claims through formal suits and witnessed the granting of ...

The Navajo Mountain community
Book 1970 Shepardson, Mary & Hammond, Blodwen

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This study examines Navajo cultural flexibility and persistence as expressed by kinship terminology and social organization. Focus is on the community of Navajo Mountain, Utah, with supplementary data from Inscription House and Oljeto, Arizona. Field...

The status of Navajo women
article 1982 Shepardson, Mary

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
Shepardson examines how acculturation and social change has affected the status of Navajo women. She looks at three periods: i) before stock reduction (1868-1933), ii) during and after stock reduction (1933-1950s), iii) and the present day (1980s). I...

Changes in Navajo mortuary practices and beliefs
article 1978 Shepardson, Mary

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This is a discussion of changes in Navajo mortuary practices and beliefs (also see document no. 309.) Shepardson first discusses Navajo beliefs about death, ghosts and the afterlife; then traditional burial practices. She next discusses several types...

Natido Binwag weaves the bango
Book 1978 Ng, Mary

IfugaoAsia > Southeast Asia
This is a photo documentary of Ifugao basket weaving, specifically, a traditional carrying bag called a BANGO. Basket weaving is a male activity, whereas weaving is a female one. The fibers for the bango originally came from the inner bark of a BANGI...

Social control amongst the Orokaiva
essay 1954 Reay, Marie

OrokaivaOceania > Melanesia
This paper is based in part on information recorded by the author and in part on the published works of F. F. Williams. A portion of the paper deals with the norms and ideals of the society, and the extent to which they are actually conformed to by i...

The maintenance of family values in a Yugoslav town
Book 1986 Gilliland, Mary Katherine

CroatsEurope > Southeastern Europe
This dissertation deals with the maintenance of four traditional family values in Milograd (a pseudonym), a medium-sized industrial town in the Slavonian region of Croatia. The four values under study are: (1) household self-sufficiency, (2) authorit...

Authority and conflict in Slavonian households
essay 1989 Gilliland, Mary Katherine

CroatsEurope > Southeastern Europe
This essay discusses the effects of environmental conditions on household boundaries and activities. It describes the various ways in which social and economic conditions have produced selective changes in households, particularly in relations of aut...

Ethnicity and federalism
article 1994 de Haas, Mary & Zulu, Paulus

ZuluAfrica > Southern Africa
This paper attempts to highlight some of the reasons why the political parties in KwaZulu-Natal, represented primarily by Inkatha and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), were particularly attached to the notion of a federal constitution for the state. I...

Icons and militants
article 1997 Peteet, Julie Marie

PalestiniansMiddle East > Middle East
Mothers are icons of nations and motherhood is often invoked in nation building and national struggles. Peteet examines this metaphor in the context of the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1991) and the Intifada (1987-1993). In both cases the idea of 'mate...

Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinain intifada
article 1994 Peteet, Julie Marie

PalestiniansMiddle East > Middle East
In this article, Peteet construes the beatings and detentions received by Palestinian male youth by Israeli security forces during the Intifada as a rite of passage to manhood. She also sees it as a moral act that transforms intended acts of humiliat...

Gender in crisis
Book 1991 Peteet, Julie Marie

PalestiniansMiddle East > Middle East
This is a history of Palestinian women's political activism. Peteet looks at both the pre-1948 women's movement and the post-1948 movement in Lebanon where she did her fieldwork. Peteet is interested in the relationship between the women's movement a...

Iranians
essay 2004 Hegland, Mary Elaine

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This article is from HRAF's 'Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures.' It discusses gender in relation to life cycle, social groups, divison of labor, parenting, religion, the public arena, sexuality, status, the arts, m...

The changing status and composition of an Iranian provincial elite
essay 1981 Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This document examines the meaning and structure of elite status in provincial Iran and discusses the changes in the status of provincial elites that occurred during the period of 1920-1979 while the Pahlavis were in power. Social histories of two gr...

Ritual, the state, and the transformation of emotional discourse in Iranian society
article 1988 Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio & Good, Byron J.

IranMiddle East > Middle East
The Goods examine the culture of sadness that has engulfed revolutionary Iran. The Shi'ite passion play, the TA'ZIEH, with its underlying and highly emotional appeal for social justice, served the Moslem clerics well in bringing about the downfall of...

North-west Nyasa-Lundazi region
book chapter 1950 Douglas, Mary Tew

Lakeshore TongaAfrica > Southern Africa
This is a brief overview of the Lakeshore Tonga, including history, demography, language, economy, social and political organization, and religion....

The social role identity of Italian-American women
essay 1983 D'Andrea, Vaneeta-marie

Italian AmericansNorth America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article focuses on the traditions of the Italian family and the Catholic church as they define women's roles and self-identity in America.'These definitions are then placed in the context of emigration experience and then followed by some tentat...

Nassau County's Italian American Women
book chapter 1987 Capozzoli, Mary Jane

Italian AmericansNorth America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a study of how their Italian heritage has affected the lives of suburban Italian-American women, especially the influence of family and kin. When compared to non-Italian women, Italian-American women tend to live closer to kin and their place...

An Aleutian basket
1907 Kissell, Mary Lois

AleutNorth America > Arctic and Subarctic
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Maternal and child health in a Siamese rice village
Book 1959 Hauck, Hazel Marie et al.

Central ThaiAsia > Southeast Asia
This study on the nutritional conditions for mothers and children in Bang Chan was undertaken by Hauck with the aid of several trained assistants. Data on the quality and quantity of food intake during different developmental stages and at different ...

Aspects of health, sanitation and nutritional status in a Siamese rice village
Book 1956 Hauck, Hazel Marie et al.

Central ThaiAsia > Southeast Asia
This report contains medical, biological and demographic data on Bang Chan, a community located about 20 miles northeast of Bangkok. It presents information on health, sanitation and anthropometry gathered while checking for symptoms of malnutrition ...