Lady friends
Book 1999 Ito, Karen L. (Karen Lee)

HawaiiansOceania > Polynesia
This is a study of six urban Hawaiian households. Ito interacted with household members, extended families, and friends; but focused on the mothers, who according to her, are the mainstays of the family. An important set of familial traditions is ass...

Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger
essay 1989 Legge, Karen

FulaniAfrica > Western Africa
This study of the impact of drought on Fulani pastoral practices discusses such traditional coping strategies as mobility, herd diversification and gathering wild resources, and considers how these practices were negatively affected during the coloni...

Women, tourism, politics
article 1977 Armstrong, Karen

Highland ScotsEurope > British Isles
This is a study of a women's voluntary association in the village of 'Kilmory' (a pseudonym) in the southwestern Highlands. Armstrong's thesis is that the Women's Rural Institute (WRI), with its interest in developing tourism as a catalyst, has funct...

The new Kazak elite
essay 1999 Odgaard, Karen & Simonsen, Jens

KazakhAsia > Central Asia
In this article the authors examine the Kazak intellectual elite and their role in controlling and shaping Kazak identity in the Soviet era. They also discuss the fall in status of the intelligentsia when post-Soviet era market reforms brought in new...

Changing patterns of infant mortality and maternal fertility among Pumé foragers and horticulturalists
article 2007 Kramer, Karen & Greaves, Russel Dean

PuméSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is a demographic study of infant mortality and fertility in several wet and dry season camps in the Capanaparo, Cinaruco, and Riecito Rivers region. In what they regard as an early stage of a demographic transition among the Pumé, the authors fi...

Early reproductive maturity among Pumé foragers
article 2009 Kramer, Karen et al.

PuméSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
Pumé girls mature early and begin having children in their mid-teens in spite of seasonal food scarcity and general harsh conditions under which they grow up. The authors argue that traditions of food sharing and more leisurely foraging strategies pe...

Postmarital residence and bilateral kin associations among hunter-gathers
article 2011 Kramer, Karen & Greaves, Russell Dean

PuméSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
In this paper, the authors examine postmarital residence patterns over a 25-year period and discover a strong bias for natalocality, i.e., living in the community one is born. The authors argue that natalocality goes hand in hand with bilateral recog...

Affinity and the role of the father in the Trobriands
article 1967 Sider, Karen Blu

TrobriandsOceania > Melanesia
This work begins with a brief survey of Trobriand society, is followed by a discussion of the major questions about matrilineal and affinal relationships and the role of the father, then Sider's own reanalysis of the data presented in the earlier wor...

Accounting for change
article 1999 Nero, Karen L.

MarshalleseOceania > Micronesia
This article shows that international development agencies currently intervening in the restructuring of the Marshal Islands economy have continued to define the term 'sustainability' in ways that undermine the resilience of local economic strategies...

Time of famine, time of transformation
essay 1989 Nero, Karen L.

BelauOceania > Micronesia
This article examines some of the important changes that occurred in Balauan culture and society in the context of foreign occupation and war-caused famines. It shows that the Balauans regained their sense of national worth when the Japanese, who tre...

The hidden pain
article 1990 Nero, Karen L.

BelauOceania > Micronesia
This article discusses the dynamics of gender relation among Belaun families. It argues that wife beating has been much more common in the 1980s than in the past. This increase is traced to expansion of alcohol drinking and use of corporal punishment...

The breadfruit tree story
article 1992 Nero, Karen L.

BelauOceania > Micronesia
This paper discusses the role of traditional Belauan stories and mythologies in contemporary politics of the islands. Based on analyses of election billboards with symbols relating to the Belauan breadfruit tree story which were in the past set aside...