Drudges, Shrews, and Unfit Mothers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12958271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Barker (0000-0002-2896-7358, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 7-33 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences and Missions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1874-8945 • E-ISSN: 1874-8937 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18748945-03101008 |
| OpenAlex | W2802917720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Among the first Europeans to encounter and settle on the southeastern coast of New Guinea, members of the London Missionary Society contributed a large corpus of publications concerning indigenous peoples from the mid-1870s until the rise of professional anthropology in the 1920s. While these works focus mainly on the activities and concerns of men, women provide a key index of “civilization” relative to the working British middle class from which most missionaries came. This essay provides a survey of the portrayal of women in this literature over three partly overlapping periods, demonstrating a shift from racialist to moral discourses on the status of Papuan women – a shift that reflects transitions in both missionary and anthropological assumptions during this period
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Civilization · Ethnology · History of religions · Indigenous · Middle class · New guinea · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy
The ethnographer's magic and other essays in the history of anthropology
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Provocative Readings in Intransigent Archives
Fellowship and Citizenship as Models of National Community
To save the girls for brighter and better lives’
John Henry Holmes in Papua
The Ethnology of the Motu
The Force of Ethnology
Pastels from the Pacific
Among Papuan Headhunters
The Gender of the Gift
Singing it 'Local
Colonial Conversions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |