Sinuous Objects: Revaluing Women's Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific

by Anna-karina Hermkens and Katherine Lepani

Some 40 years ago, Pacific anthropology was dominated by debates about 'women's wealth'. These exchanges were generated by Annette Weiner's (1976) critical reappraisal of Bronislaw Malinowski's classic work on the Trobriand Islands, and her observations that women's production of 'wealth' (banana leaf bundles and skirts) for elaborate transactions in mortuary rituals occupied a central role in Trobriand matrilineal cosmology and social organisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1760461334
• ISBN13: 9781760461331
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"