Introduction: theoretical issues in the anthropological study of women / Sharon W. Tiffany -- A note on the division of labor by sex / Judith K. Brown -- Economic organization and the position of women among the Iroquois / Judith K. Brown -- The role of women in a changing Navaho society / Laila Shukry Hamamsy -- Women in modernizing societies / Laurel Bossen -- Bargaining from weakness: spirit possession on the South Kenya coast / Roger Gomm -- Jural relations between the sexes among the Barabaig / George Klima -- "Sitting on a man:" colonialism and the lost political institutions of Igbo women / Judith Van Allen -- Going home to mother: traditional marriage among the Irigwe of Benue-Plateau State, Nigeria / Walter H. Sangree -- Women-marriage, with special reference to the Lovedu-its significance for the definition of marriage / Eileen Jensen Krige -- Sex differences in the incidence of Susto in two Zapotec Pueblos: an analysis of the relationships between sex role expectations and a folk illness / Carl W. O'Nell and Harry A. Selby -- Sexual antagonism in the New Guinea Highlands: a Bena Bena example / L.L. Langness -- Male and female in Tokelau culture / Judith Huntsman and Antony Hooper.
iv, 329 pages ;22 cm