Are the prerogatives of age universal? This first-ever anthropological exploration of relationships between older and younger women suggests that this may be the case.Cross-cultural in nature, the volume looks at relationships between women of different age groups in a village in Taiwan, a town in central Sudan, a rural setting in western Kenya, an Andean peasant community, a horticultural village in Melanesia, and an Aboriginal community in Australia. Adding an interspecies perspective is a study of two age groups of Japanese Macaques. Included is an ethnographic bibliography that lists...
Are the prerogatives of age universal? This first-ever anthropological exploration of relationships between older and younger women suggests that this...
This volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this form of violence.
This volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are...
