Dorothy Ayers Counts
Biographic Data
| ID | 80421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Ayers Counts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy Ayers |
| FAMILY NAME | Counts |
| SIGNATURE | COUNTS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sanctions and Sanctuary
Father's Water equals Mother's Milk
This paper describes the traditional and modern ideology of conception and parenting among the Kaliai of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. A pervasive set of beliefs hinges on male primacy and includes the assignment of the principal role in conception to the male. Females become kin to the children they bear only secondarily, through nurturance of their infants. Mother's milk and semen, then, are equivalent in their capacity to establ…
The good, the bad, and the unresolved death in Kaliai
Over the next hill
Between Culture and Fantasy
Sanctions and Sanctuary
Sanctions And Sanctuary
Bringing together evidence from 15 Western and non-Western societies - ranging from hunter-gatherers to urban Americans - this book examines wife-beating from a worldwide perspective. Cross-cultural comparison aims to give a more accurate picture of cultural influences on wife-battering and to show the commonalities and differences of the phenomenon across world cultures. The authors offer hypotheses concerning the cultural factors that facilitat…
Pacific Studies Special Issue
They're My Family Now
Aging, health and women in West New Britain
People Who Act like Dogs
Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The purpose of this chapter is to review and discuss the contributions cross-cultural studies have made or might make to our understanding of family violence. To cover as much territory as possible I have defined cross-cultural studies broadly to include any information collection and analysis approach that involves either the implicit or explicit comparison of two or more cultural groups. Cultural group is defined broadly as well, to include nat…
Aging and Its Transformations
Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania
Symposium
Modernization often changes infant feeding practices, nursing being abandoned for bottle feeding. This study focusses on the relationship between parenting and nurture in a rural Papua New Guinea community. It examines whether introduced ideas have changed nursing practice, and how the idea that semen contaminates breast milk may affect infant feeding. Observation of the interaction of fifty women and children suggests that, despite changed ideas…
Aspects of Dying in Northwest New Britain
Three detailed case studies and more general discussion of aspects of death in northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea, demonstrate Kaliai concepts of good and bad death. The consequences of both kinds of death for the dying person and for survivors are noted, and we explore why a person might choose a bad death
Cross-cultural Perspectives on Middle-aged Women [and Comments and Replies]
Several exploratory cross-cultural studies have suggested that positive changes take place in the lives of women in non-Western societies as they age beyond the childbearing years. They are freed from a variety of restrictions. They are given authority over certain specified kinsmen, and they are provided with opportunities for achievement and recognition beyond the household. The fact that such changes are more dramatic in some societies than in…
General and Theoretical
Lathai Speech
Fighting back is not the way
A case study of the suicide of a young Kaliai girl in northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea introduces a discussion of suicide as an expression of power by otherwise powerless people, and a consideration of the validity of using the legal terms suicide and homicide in a cross-cultural context. Data on different forms of self-killing practiced by Kaliai women support the argument that these terms are inadequate and inappropriate when applied to …
Sanctions And Sanctuary
Bringing together evidence from 15 Western and non-Western societies - ranging from hunter-gatherers to urban Americans - this book examines wife-beating from a worldwide perspective. Cross-cultural comparison aims to give a more accurate picture of cultural influences on wife-battering and to show the commonalities and differences of the phenomenon across world cultures. The authors offer hypotheses concerning the cultural factors that facilitat…
Fighting back is not the way
A case study of the suicide of a young Kaliai girl in northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea introduces a discussion of suicide as an expression of power by otherwise powerless people, and a consideration of the validity of using the legal terms suicide and homicide in a cross-cultural context. Data on different forms of self-killing practiced by Kaliai women support the argument that these terms are inadequate and inappropriate when applied to …
Cross-cultural Perspectives on Middle-aged Women [and Comments and Replies]
Several exploratory cross-cultural studies have suggested that positive changes take place in the lives of women in non-Western societies as they age beyond the childbearing years. They are freed from a variety of restrictions. They are given authority over certain specified kinsmen, and they are provided with opportunities for achievement and recognition beyond the household. The fact that such changes are more dramatic in some societies than in…
The good, the bad, and the unresolved death in Kaliai
Father's Water equals Mother's Milk
This paper describes the traditional and modern ideology of conception and parenting among the Kaliai of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. A pervasive set of beliefs hinges on male primacy and includes the assignment of the principal role in conception to the male. Females become kin to the children they bear only secondarily, through nurturance of their infants. Mother's milk and semen, then, are equivalent in their capacity to establ…
Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania
They're My Family Now
Aging, health and women in West New Britain
People Who Act like Dogs
Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The purpose of this chapter is to review and discuss the contributions cross-cultural studies have made or might make to our understanding of family violence. To cover as much territory as possible I have defined cross-cultural studies broadly to include any information collection and analysis approach that involves either the implicit or explicit comparison of two or more cultural groups. Cultural group is defined broadly as well, to include nat…
General and Theoretical
Lathai Speech
Fighting back is not the way
A case study of the suicide of a young Kaliai girl in northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea introduces a discussion of suicide as an expression of power by otherwise powerless people, and a consideration of the validity of using the legal terms suicide and homicide in a cross-cultural context. Data on different forms of self-killing practiced by Kaliai women support the argument that these terms are inadequate and inappropriate when applied to …
Cross-cultural Perspectives on Middle-aged Women [and Comments and Replies]
Several exploratory cross-cultural studies have suggested that positive changes take place in the lives of women in non-Western societies as they age beyond the childbearing years. They are freed from a variety of restrictions. They are given authority over certain specified kinsmen, and they are provided with opportunities for achievement and recognition beyond the household. The fact that such changes are more dramatic in some societies than in…
Symposium
Modernization often changes infant feeding practices, nursing being abandoned for bottle feeding. This study focusses on the relationship between parenting and nurture in a rural Papua New Guinea community. It examines whether introduced ideas have changed nursing practice, and how the idea that semen contaminates breast milk may affect infant feeding. Observation of the interaction of fifty women and children suggests that, despite changed ideas…
Aspects of Dying in Northwest New Britain
Three detailed case studies and more general discussion of aspects of death in northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea, demonstrate Kaliai concepts of good and bad death. The consequences of both kinds of death for the dying person and for survivors are noted, and we explore why a person might choose a bad death
Middlemen and Brokers in Oceania
Aging and Its Transformations
Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The purpose of this chapter is to review and discuss the contributions cross-cultural studies have made or might make to our understanding of family violence. To cover as much territory as possible I have defined cross-cultural studies broadly to include any information collection and analysis approach that involves either the implicit or explicit comparison of two or more cultural groups. Cultural group is defined broadly as well, to include nat…
Aging, health and women in West New Britain
People Who Act like Dogs
Sanctions And Sanctuary
Bringing together evidence from 15 Western and non-Western societies - ranging from hunter-gatherers to urban Americans - this book examines wife-beating from a worldwide perspective. Cross-cultural comparison aims to give a more accurate picture of cultural influences on wife-battering and to show the commonalities and differences of the phenomenon across world cultures. The authors offer hypotheses concerning the cultural factors that facilitat…
Pacific Studies Special Issue
They're My Family Now
Sanctions and Sanctuary
Between Culture and Fantasy
Over the next hill
The good, the bad, and the unresolved death in Kaliai
Father's Water equals Mother's Milk
This paper describes the traditional and modern ideology of conception and parenting among the Kaliai of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. A pervasive set of beliefs hinges on male primacy and includes the assignment of the principal role in conception to the male. Females become kin to the children they bear only secondarily, through nurturance of their infants. Mother's milk and semen, then, are equivalent in their capacity to establ…
Sanctions and Sanctuary
Sociology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (5 works)