Pig men and women, big men and women: gender and production in the New Guinea Highlands.

From: Ethnology | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: Sillitoe, Paul | Copyright information

The work of herding pigs falls mainly to women in the New Guinea Highlands. Yet men control the disposal of animals, commonly in sociopolitical exchange events that earn them prestige. Some commentators regard these pig management arrangements as an aspect of exploitative gender relations, men appropriating the labor of women to bolster their reputations. But this interpretation is contrary to the constitution of an acephalous social order, which esteems equality and affords both w...

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