Christine Ward Gailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 468751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Ward Gailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine Ward |
| FAMILY NAME | Gailey |
| SIGNATURE | GAILEY C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7036-6329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Women and Warfare: Shifting Status in Precapitalist State Formation
Women’s engagement in warfare has been offered as requisite to the eradication of gender hierarchy. Their presumed non-involvement in combat has been presented as an indication of lower status. Both views are critiqued in this article. In kinship societies, women’s engagement in warfare is discussed. The relationship of warfare to social authority is considered in the context of class formative, and often colonial, pressures. Warfare in precapita…
The Kindness of Strangers: Transformations of Kinship in Precapitalist Class and State Formation
Structural tensions in kinship relations have led only rarely to class stratification. Using the case of Tongan society in precolonial Polynesia, this paper analyzes some of the reasons for the long-term reproduction of kin-based authority, labor and property relations. Pivotal aspects of kinship relations that must change for classes to emerge are examined. Connections are proposed between class and state formation as processes, and the transfor…
Rambo” In Tonga: Video Films and Cultural Resistance in the Tongan Islands (South Pacific)
Video films and VCR’s have widespread popularity in the kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific). Based on field research in urban neighbourhoods, the author argues that local interpretations of videos can vary markedly from dominant meanings, but at times parallel them. Discussion of the distribution, ownership, video genres available, and viewing patterns - as well as shifting land rights, cash income needs, and international labor migration - provides…
Locating primitive communism in capitalist social formations
Limbo
Pacing the Upper Peninsula
Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice
Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. Christine Ward Gailey analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the p…
My love is never blind: Riverside, southern California
"Community, State and Questions of Social Evolution in Marx's "Ethnological Notebooks
Les Carnets ethnographiques de Marx sont parmi les derniers de ses ecrits. Ils commentent la formation des classes et des Etats dans un ensemble de contextes precapitalistes. L'A. soutient qu'apres Le Capital, Marx s'est tourne vers les problemes de formation des classes dans le socialisme ; il a examine le conflit entre les communautes de producteurs et l'ordre du jour des Etats, d'une part, et la resistance des bureaucraties et des fonctionnair…
Richard Lee: The Politics, Art and Science of Anthropology
Cette introduction aux travaux de Richard B. Lee comprend une esquisse biographique et une analyse des contributions les plus importantes que ses recherches ont apportees a l'anthropologie actuelle. L'esquisse biographique situe le developpement des interets de Richard B. Lee pour l'anthropologie politique dans les annees 1960. La biographie intellectuelle rappelle son implication dans les debats-cles sur les chasseurs-cueilleurs, l'historicite d…
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Becoming a North American Anthropologist
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Report from the President
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Message from the President
Rethinking Child Labor in an Age of Capitalist Restructuring
Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption
In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of conditions considered to be “abuse and neglect.” Children entering the system are vulnerable to additional bureaucratically ordained violence, some of which is generic and some of which is gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and …
Women and the democratization movement in Tonga
Politics, Colonialism, and the Mutable Color of Southern Pacific Peoples
Mediated Messages: Gender, Class, and Cosmos in Home Video Games
Civilization in Crisis: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond, Anthropological Perspectives, Vol. 1
Power Relations and State Formation
A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Overseas migration and the decentered family in the Tongan Islands
The impact of widespread international labor migration on the family in Tonga is examined. The author describes how migration has affected gender and kinship relations. She also examines the ways in which church and state ideologies encourage the development of the nuclear family, while overseas labor migration creates a need to maintain extended support systems among family networks
Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810
Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender
Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's `invisible' work. Gender and Society
Categories without culture: Structuralism, ethnohistory and ethnocide
Mediated Messages: Gender, Class, and Cosmos in Home Video Games
A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Overseas migration and the decentered family in the Tongan Islands
The impact of widespread international labor migration on the family in Tonga is examined. The author describes how migration has affected gender and kinship relations. She also examines the ways in which church and state ideologies encourage the development of the nuclear family, while overseas labor migration creates a need to maintain extended support systems among family networks
Rethinking Child Labor in an Age of Capitalist Restructuring
The Kindness of Strangers: Transformations of Kinship in Precapitalist Class and State Formation
Structural tensions in kinship relations have led only rarely to class stratification. Using the case of Tongan society in precolonial Polynesia, this paper analyzes some of the reasons for the long-term reproduction of kin-based authority, labor and property relations. Pivotal aspects of kinship relations that must change for classes to emerge are examined. Connections are proposed between class and state formation as processes, and the transfor…
Rambo” In Tonga: Video Films and Cultural Resistance in the Tongan Islands (South Pacific)
Video films and VCR’s have widespread popularity in the kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific). Based on field research in urban neighbourhoods, the author argues that local interpretations of videos can vary markedly from dominant meanings, but at times parallel them. Discussion of the distribution, ownership, video genres available, and viewing patterns - as well as shifting land rights, cash income needs, and international labor migration - provides…
Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption
In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of conditions considered to be “abuse and neglect.” Children entering the system are vulnerable to additional bureaucratically ordained violence, some of which is generic and some of which is gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and …
Categories without culture: Structuralism, ethnohistory and ethnocide
Women's Work: Development and the Division of Labor by Gender
Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links production and reproduction, and redefines work to encompass women's `invisible' work. Gender and Society
Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw It, 1616-1810
Power Relations and State Formation
A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Overseas migration and the decentered family in the Tongan Islands
The impact of widespread international labor migration on the family in Tonga is examined. The author describes how migration has affected gender and kinship relations. She also examines the ways in which church and state ideologies encourage the development of the nuclear family, while overseas labor migration creates a need to maintain extended support systems among family networks
Mediated Messages: Gender, Class, and Cosmos in Home Video Games
Civilization in Crisis: Essays in Honor of Stanley Diamond, Anthropological Perspectives, Vol. 1
Politics, Colonialism, and the Mutable Color of Southern Pacific Peoples
Women and the democratization movement in Tonga
Making kinship in the wake of history: Gendered violence and older child adoption
In the United States children enter the state‐run foster care system because of a range of conditions considered to be “abuse and neglect.” Children entering the system are vulnerable to additional bureaucratically ordained violence, some of which is generic and some of which is gendered. This paper situates the exposure of children in state care to gendered violence in a context of poverty, the scaling back of state social welfare programs, and …
Rethinking Child Labor in an Age of Capitalist Restructuring
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Message from the President
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Report from the President
Society for the Anthropology of North America: Becoming a North American Anthropologist
"Community, State and Questions of Social Evolution in Marx's "Ethnological Notebooks
Les Carnets ethnographiques de Marx sont parmi les derniers de ses ecrits. Ils commentent la formation des classes et des Etats dans un ensemble de contextes precapitalistes. L'A. soutient qu'apres Le Capital, Marx s'est tourne vers les problemes de formation des classes dans le socialisme ; il a examine le conflit entre les communautes de producteurs et l'ordre du jour des Etats, d'une part, et la resistance des bureaucraties et des fonctionnair…
Richard Lee: The Politics, Art and Science of Anthropology
Cette introduction aux travaux de Richard B. Lee comprend une esquisse biographique et une analyse des contributions les plus importantes que ses recherches ont apportees a l'anthropologie actuelle. L'esquisse biographique situe le developpement des interets de Richard B. Lee pour l'anthropologie politique dans les annees 1960. La biographie intellectuelle rappelle son implication dans les debats-cles sur les chasseurs-cueilleurs, l'historicite d…
My love is never blind: Riverside, southern California
Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice
Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. Christine Ward Gailey analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the p…
Pacing the Upper Peninsula
Limbo
Locating primitive communism in capitalist social formations
Women and Warfare: Shifting Status in Precapitalist State Formation
Women’s engagement in warfare has been offered as requisite to the eradication of gender hierarchy. Their presumed non-involvement in combat has been presented as an indication of lower status. Both views are critiqued in this article. In kinship societies, women’s engagement in warfare is discussed. The relationship of warfare to social authority is considered in the context of class formative, and often colonial, pressures. Warfare in precapita…
The Kindness of Strangers: Transformations of Kinship in Precapitalist Class and State Formation
Structural tensions in kinship relations have led only rarely to class stratification. Using the case of Tongan society in precolonial Polynesia, this paper analyzes some of the reasons for the long-term reproduction of kin-based authority, labor and property relations. Pivotal aspects of kinship relations that must change for classes to emerge are examined. Connections are proposed between class and state formation as processes, and the transfor…
Rambo” In Tonga: Video Films and Cultural Resistance in the Tongan Islands (South Pacific)
Video films and VCR’s have widespread popularity in the kingdom of Tonga (South Pacific). Based on field research in urban neighbourhoods, the author argues that local interpretations of videos can vary markedly from dominant meanings, but at times parallel them. Discussion of the distribution, ownership, video genres available, and viewing patterns - as well as shifting land rights, cash income needs, and international labor migration - provides…
The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (6 works) · Citation (5 works)