Fictive kinship

considered significance in the matrilineal society of women own wealth since he didn’t investigate women productive by only focus on the male wealth. Therefore, the author study both Trobriand women and men from their matrilineal descent emerged, kinship that form the chiefly power and focused on women productive work, how they distributed their wealth which was bundles of banana exchanged with other women after the death of their husband. However, Malinowski noted that the high status of…

The topic of gender and parenthood has always been researched, but more so in a bias and unclear way. There is no differentiation between preferences of disciplinary techniques and the gender gap between the mother-child dyad, the father-child dyad, or the father-mother-child triad. This reason is primarily because of gender differences in parenting. According to Alice S. Rossi, “twenty years ago parenting meant mothering, and studies either frankly labeled their subjects “mothers,” or one…

In the 19th century, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, who were both African American authors, narrated stories of their personal, yet compelling experiences as slaves in America. In the slave narratives, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, both authors recount the horrific experiences and the mutual yearn for freedom of the past they have now fled and showed how their experiences shaped who they become in their life after slavery. When…

The idea and shaping of the Great Turtle Island or so called ‘Americas’, was a long-lasting period characterized with a lot of transformational changes. The period known as ‘the colonial era’ was a period characterized with massive changes, as well as the people immigrating from all four different continents: Europe, Africa, South America and North America. The interaction and “unity” among the different majorities, were people dependent on classification like race, class and gender. The…

Complementary Field Exam RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Race and ethnicity are both important aspects of identity in the modern world. Given their centrality in today’s identity politics, the study of race and ethnicity has naturally found its way into the pages of studies on the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks and Romans are thought to have been the progenitors of ideas and philosophies which the modern “Western” world…

Chapter Two Ethnographic Fictional representation of tribe and gender in select fiction of Pratibha Ray Pratibha Ray’s The Primal Land is the story of Bonda tribals who struggled to survive through the development induced displacement of their indigenous ‘country’. She reconstructs the socio-cultural myths, beliefs and rituals of the past and also the present transformations in the socio-cultural setup in the Bonda lands. BondaRay’s narrative provides us the social, political, and economic…