Author: Christine A. Loveland
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780252008580
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social and cultural anthropology essays on social roles and sexual division of labour, as well as on social change among indigenous peoples in Lower Central America - analyses the causes of men dominance and lower female social status; looks at historical background and traditional culture, role of religious missions, labour force participation of woman workers and women's life cycles; examines new economic roles, rural migration, urban area influence, changing leadership patterns, etc. Diagrams, photographs, references, statistical tables.
Author: José Tomás de Cuéllar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0195115031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two "renderings of a Mexican society fast unraveling under the mounting influence of European culture."--Cover.
Author: Susan Starr Sered
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0195104676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this fascinating and path-breaking work--comparing 12 women's religions--Sered investigates how women's religions differ from those dominated by men. She then reveals how these religions relate to the special ways women around the world experience reality. 19 halftones.
Author: Susan Kellogg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-09-02
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 019028420X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles in native Latin America over many centuries, drawing upon a range of evidence from archaeology, anthropology, religion, and politics. Primary and secondary sources include chronicles, codices, newspaper articles, and monographic work on specific regions. Arguing that Latin America's indigenous women were the critical force behind the more important events and processes of Latin America's history, Kellogg interweaves the region's history of family, sexual, and labor history with the origins of women's power in prehispanic, colonial, and modern South and Central America. Shying away from interpretations that treat women as house bound and passive, the book instead emphasizes women's long history of performing labor, being politically active, and contributing to, even supporting, family and community well-being.
Author: Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stuart Corbridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 1351944800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume brings together twenty-five of the most influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. The first part looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s. Thereafter, the book is organized thematically. Geographers have made key contributions to development studies in four major areas, all of which are represented here and include gender and households, development alternatives and identities, resource conflicts and political ecology and globalization and resistance. The book ends with three broad-ranging essays by leading figures in the field.
Author: Peggy Wright
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Virginia Kerns
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780252066658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterword by the author. "One of the outstanding studies of this genre. . . . Refreshingly, the book has good photographs, as well as strong endnotes and bibliography, and very useful tables, figures, maps, and index." -- Choice "An outstanding contribution to the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence." -- Grant D. Jones, American Ethnologist "A richly detailed account of a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued, and self-respecting." -- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly "A combination of competent research, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifully evocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist