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Ethnographies of Gender, Modernity, and Postcolonialism.
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Pam Haley WST 6934 Ethnographies of Gender, Modernity, and Postcolonialism Dr. Mary Cameron Summer Term 2004 Fruit of the Motherland and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen both address gender issues in small-scale egalitarian societies whose cultures have been imposed upon by modernization and have reacted with varying degrees of resistance. The central theme for Lepowsky's Fruit of the Motherland is near total equality between the sexes of Vanatinai, a small island near New Guinea, where she concludes that there is no ideology or practice of male domination. Her traditionally written ethnography then offers support of this main thesis. Tsing's Diamond Queen, written in a more post-modern fashion, delves into much broader issues than providing evidence of female equality. In this sometimes difficult to follow ethnography, Tsing focuses on how a small society, the Dayak Meratus of the mountains of Indonesian, both resists and accepts their marginality within the politics of the state....
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