Gender, Ideology and Money in Mount Hagen

Sorcery and SSCEP: the cultural context of an educational innovation

“…Communal orientations and village values are ascendant through most of Papua New Guinea, and where new economic activities are pursued, sorcery is one of the mechanisms through which pre-existing social forms and social values exert a very strong modifying influence on them (see Gregory, 1980;Sexton, 1982;Strathern, 1979Strathern, , 1982. Thus sorcery is likely to be a constraint on any attempt to implement a development or commercial project along the lines envisaged by SSCEP.…”

Politics and gender in Pacific Island societies: A feminist critique of the anthropology of power

“…Hagen women assert claims to their own productivity while simultaneously managing the conflicting demands on it by their husbands and brothers, demands accelerated by increased participation in labor intensive activities associated with coffee cash cropping (A. Strathern 1979Strathern , 1982; see also Sexton [1982Sexton [ , 1983 for discussion of economic change in the eastern Highlands of New Guinea). The diverse responses of Highland men and women to new opportunities generated by cash cropping demonstrate the need for frameworks that incorporate gender relations in anthropological discourse about kinship and the political economy.…”

Reluctant Subjects or Passive Resistance?

“…(e.g. Hughes, 1978;Strathern, 1979;Feil, 1987). In my own work in the Sepik region of PNG, highly codified indigenous exchange relations enabled the systematic exploitation of villagers of less than six generations of village residence.…”