Fighting women : anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia / Victoria Katherine Burbank.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994Description: xvi, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0520083083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Aggressiveness (Psychology) -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Women, Australian aboriginal -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Social conditions
- Women, Australian aboriginal -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Psychology
- Women -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Psychology
- Feminist criticism -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Social conditions
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land -- Psychology
- Aggressiveness -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Sex role -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Wubuy people N128
- Sex role -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T)
- Feminist criticism -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T)
- Sex role -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Feminist criticism -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Nunggubuyu people (N128) (NT SD53-11)
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Psychology
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Social conditions
- Aggressiveness -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Interpersonal relations
- Magic and sorcery - Clever people
- Family - Violence
- Gender relations - Feminism
- Gender relations - Polygamy
- Psychology - Emotions
- Psychology - Motivation
- Sex relations
- Substance use
- Psychology - Interpersonal relations
- Gender relations -- Gender roles
- Gender relations -- Marriage
- Aggressiveness
- Feminist criticism
- Interpersonal relations
- Sex role
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Social conditions
- Aborigines
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
- Arnhemland
- Aborigines
- Aggressiveness - Australia - Northern Territory - Arnhem Land
- Women, Aboriginal Australian - Australia - Arnhem Land (N.T.) - Social conditions
- Sex role - Australia - Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Women, Aboriginal Australian - Australia - Arnhem Land (N.T.) - Psychology
- Feminist criticism - Australia - Arnhem Land (N.T.)
- Interpersonal relations
- Australian aborigines Women Abuse
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Includes index.
JSNWL holds paperback edition only.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-236) and index.
Emic analysis of Aboriginal women and aggression in the Mangrove community eastern Arnhem Land; aggression in feminist theory; stories of aggression in Aboriginal society; ethics and fieldwork; description of Mangrove - mission influence; role of violence in Aboriginal society; acts of aggression in daily life - womens experience of violence; theory of culture and emotion; causes of anger, jealousy, shame and aggression - motivation; substance abuse; social control and consequences of aggression; competition among women - polygamy and sexual relations; gender relations; authority and status; domestic violence; ritual and supernatural aggression - sorcery, cursing; includes case studies.
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