Fighting women : anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia / Victoria Katherine Burbank
- Bib ID:
- 1705215
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Burbank, Victoria Katherine, 1944-
- Online Version:
- http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9199p2c9
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- Description:
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994
- xvi, 250 p. : 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0520083075 (alkaline paper)
- 0520083083 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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Emic analysis of Aboriginal women and aggression in the Mangrove community eastern Arnhem Land; aggression in feminist theory; stories of aggression in Aboriginal society; ethics and fieldwork; description of Mangrove - mission influence; role of violence in Aboriginal society; acts of aggression in daily life - womens experience of violence; theory of culture and emotion; causes of anger, jealousy, shame and aggression - motivation; substance abuse; social control and consequences of aggression; competition among women - polygamy and sexual relations; gender relations; authority and status; domestic violence; ritual and supernatural aggression - sorcery, cursing; includes case studies.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 205-236.
- A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
- Subject:
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- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Social conditions
- Women -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Psychology
- Aggressiveness -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Sex role -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Interpersonal relations
- Feminist criticism -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Substance use
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Nunggubuyu people (N128) (NT SD53-11)
- Family - Violence
- Sex relations
- Gender relations - Feminism
- Psychology - Interpersonal relations
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Gender relations - Marriage
- Psychology - Emotions
- Gender relations - Gender roles
- Psychology - Motivation
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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