ANTC09H3 Lecture 6: Week 6 Readings
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Women and the circulation of valuables in highlands new guinea . Throughout the highlands a sexual division of labour makes women responsible for the daily horticultural tasks, men for intermittent ones and for the conduct of public life. Gender everywhere provides a powerful source of symbolism so that constrastcs between what women and men do may stand for constrasts between domestic and political action. Clans which for certain purposes define themselves as abody through common patrilineal descent are generally middle order units in a hierarchy of bounded groups. May acts as units in fighting and in contracting marriages. Sometimes members of a clan live together. 2 cases: the daulo region in the eastern highlands province & hagen in the western highlands. Saxton has described daulo womens reactions to men s deployed of cash in ceremonial exchange and business. There women have developed their own savings and exchange system called in pdigin wok meri(women s work)
