Kinship to Kingship : : Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands / / Christine Ward Gailey.
Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Press Sourcebooks in Anthropology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: The Quest for Origins
- i. The Subordination of Women: Gender in Transitions from Kinship to Class
- 2. State Formation
- Part Two: Gender and Kinship Relations in Precontact Tonga
- 3. Authority and Ambiguity: Rethinking Tongan Kinship
- 4. The Reproduction of Ambiguity: Succession Disputes, Marriage Patterns, and Foreigners
- 5. Division of Labor
- 6. Exchange and Value
- 7. Gender Relations at Contact
- Part Three: Conversion, Commodities, and State Formation
- 8. Early Contact
- 9. Missionaries: The Crusade for Christian Civilization
- 10. A Native Kingdom: Creating Class and Gender Stratification
- 11. Changing Production: Commodities, Tribute, and Forced Labor
- 12. Dialectics of Class and State Formation
- Appendix: Sources and Methods
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index