GENDER IN CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

"Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective is a one-volume reader built on classic contributions to gender and anthropology, incorporating recent literature on gender roles and ideology around the world. It combines theoretically and ethnographically-based essays and is appropriate for undergraduate and beginning graduate students."
"This anthology introduces readers to the most significant topics in the field of anthropology of gender--drawing from the most recent, diverse literature on gender roles and ideology around the world. A clear, accessible approach to the subject matter includes topics such as biology, gender, and human evolution; gender and prehistory; domestic and public worlds; the cultural construction of gender and personhood; culture and sexuality; division of labor; property and the state; household and kinship; ritual and religion; politics; reproduction; colonialism, development, and the global economy."
"This reader introduces students/readers to the most significant topics in the field of anthropology of genderdrawing not only from classic sources, but also from the most recent, diverse literature on gender roles and ideology around the world.-publisher description."
"This reader introduces students/readers to the most significant topics in the field of anthropology of gender-drawing, not only from classic sources, but also from the most recent, diverse literature on gender roles and ideology around the world."