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	Papua New Guinea - Louisiade Archipelago
		The island of Vanatinai (also known as Sudest or Tagula) is by far the largest island of the island-barrier reef system.
		Pana Tinani, located 3 km north from the northwestern tip of Vanatinai, is the second largest island within the Vanatinai lagoon, measuring 18 km in length and averaging 4 km in width, covering an area of 78 km².
		Located to the west of Vanatinai is a region containing numerous large and small reefs, such as Long Reef and the Anchorage Reefs; many small islets and cays are located in the area.
	www.oceandots.com /pacific/png/louisiade.htm (668 words)

	Louisiade Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten volcanic islands and coral reefs located just southeast of Papua New Guinea, between the Solomon Sea to the north and the Coral Sea to the south.
		Sideia and Basilaki islands lie closest to New Guinea, while Misima, Vanatinai (called Sudest or Tagula as named by European claimants on Western maps), and Rossel islands lie further east.
		The archipelago has a land area of approximately 1600 km² (600 square miles), and Vanatinai (Sudest/Tagula) is the largest island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louisiade_Archipelago (230 words)

	Introductory Remarks: Women's Rights as International Human Rights
		Vanatinai is located in the Coral Sea south of Papua, New Guinea.
		Maria Lepowsky, an anthropologist and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, lived among the people of Vanatinai and undertook a holistic ethnographic study of their gender roles and culture.
		Moreover, the Vanatinai language embodies the culture's emphasis on gender egalitarianism as it is gender-neutral and contains no gender-identifying pronouns such as 'he' or 'she.'
	www.law-lib.utoronto.ca /Diana/fulltext/crim.htm (2104 words)

	Pacific Studies Review
		In Fruit of the Motherland, Maria Lepowsky provides a fine- grained description of key social interactions on the island of Vanatinai in the Louisiade Archipelago in which women's role ranges from dominating such as in the all-important mortuary ritual to exclusion such as in sorcery.
		At the outset, she notes that Vanatinai is "a society in which there is no ideology of male superiority, and one in which women have the same kinds of personal autonomy and control of the means of production as men" (p.
		The problem, as I see it, is that because the doctrine of universal sexual asymmetry has achieved the status of theoretical as well as political hegemony in Western thought, feminist anthropologists feel that their work would be counted as less than scientific did they not pay it some sort of lip service.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~psanday/pacific2.html (2064 words)

	Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea - John Seach
		Louisiade Archipelago is a group of islands located at the eastern end of New Guinea.
		Sideia, Basilaki, Misima, Vanatinai (Sudest or Tagula), and Rossel islands.
		The archipelago has a land area of approximately 1600 km² (600 square miles), and Vanatinai (Sudest/Tagula) is the largest island.
	www.volcanolive.com /louisiade.html (53 words)

	Fruit of the Motherland
		An ethnographic study of how gender is negotiated in Vanatinai, a small matrilineal island near New Guinea.
		Lepowsky presents an ethnography of Vanatinai, a matrilineal, decentralized society in New Guinea where there is no ideology of male dominance and women and men are considered fundamentally equal.
		tracing the life cycle of islanders of both sexes, she examines the role of gender in thye Vanatinai's: social life and history, religious philosophy and worldview, practice of ceremonial exchange and ritual.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0231081219 (280 words)

	Race, Class, and Gender (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Class dominance and therefore class struggle only occurs in cultures where property and capital can be owned and locked away.
		The Vanatinai, for example, are fairly classless (Lepowsky 1993: 292).
		Their Colonial overlords eliminated the major source of sexual inequality with the imposition of peace and the elimination of the warrior classification among the Vanatinai.
	ebean390.tripod.com /epaper3.htm (1532 words)

	A Gender-Equal Paradise in the South Pacific?
		She says that on Sudest, or Vanatinai as it is called by its inhabitants, men and women live and work as virtual equals.
		Page 203: Sorcery on Vanatinai is almost entirely the province of males, but even so they do not have a monopoly on sorcery...for a few women have been adepts.
		Page 175: The Vanatinai men who are known as sorcerers are often the most influential members of their hamlet.
	www.debunker.com /texts/vanatinai.html (3484 words)

	Matrix Cultures
		On Vanatinai, northwest of Australia, "the way of the ancestors." The Kogi people of Colombia name themselves “Children of the Mother”; the Iroquois, “Longhouse People.”
		A similar custom exists in Vanatinai, in the far southwestern Pacific.
		A woman taking off her skirt gives a signal for war or for peace, and this can also be a sign that she is extending protection to a captive enemy.
	www.suppressedhistories.net /matrix/matrix.html (1232 words)

	Frameworks for Societies in Balance:A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Gender Equality
		The Vanatinai islanders of New Guinea (Lepowsky 1993) provide a well-documented example of such a society.
		In accordance with the scarcity of gender symbolism in the society, gender-blindness is closely associated with the Vanatinai ideal personalities, including characteristics that promote both individual autonomy (such as strength, wisdom, and magical power) and communal solidarity (such as sharing, generosity, and nurturing) (Lepowsky 1993:116, 119, 283).
		Specifically, the Vanatinai matrilineal system is counterbalanced by other gender-blind institutions such as the relatively unusual bilocal pattern of postmarital residence, which obligates a married couple to live alternately with their two natal families for many years (Lepowsky 1993:47).
	www.second-congress-matriarchal-studies.com /du.html (3734 words)

	Resources - Matriarchy Discussions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Denise, great question which I gladly answer because it indirectly leads to promoting a good book.
		Please direct your students to New Guinea, i.e, the island society of Vanatinai.
		It's a matrilineal society, which does favor equality between the genders.
	newmedia.colorado.edu /~socwomen/resources/matriarch.html (234 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Lepowsky studied Vanatinai, an island southwest of New Guinea, in order to learn how social life could be organized without the assumption of male dominance.
		This book conveys a complex understanding of the orderliness of careers and social organization in such a place.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0231081200 (374 words)

	Ethnography of the Pacific Islands (Borofsky, 1996)
		Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society by Maria Lepowsky
		The book combines an ethnography of the Melanesian Vanatinai with a broader question regarding male/female equality.
		It suggests that males and females can indeed be "equal" and considers the conditions and contexts that foster such equality.
	www.hawaii.edu /cpis/psi/anthro/Ethnog_of_P_I.html (1330 words)

	145rag2.html
		Note the number of dialects on the island of Vanatinai alone (p.
		• In what sense are women on Vanatinai relatively equal to men in an economic sense?
		• What is your reaction to thew ay the Vanatinai students were treated in the Catholic school in the 1950s?
	people.hofstra.edu /daniel_m_varisco/145rag2.html (2974 words)

	Bk960310
		Fox-Genovese teaches at Emory University and is the author of "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life."
		Anthropologist Maria Lepowsky tells Jim Fleming about the sexually egalitarian society on Vanatinai, a small island southeast of New Guinea where men's and women's roles are equally valued.
		Lepowsky teaches at the University of Wisconsin and is the author of "Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society."
	www.wpr.org /book/bk960310.htm (548 words)

	2401 reading questions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		What (uneven) effects did the "domestication" of children have on household organization in the U.S.?
		How is the transformation from childhood to adolescence marked on Vanatinai?
		How are youth in Vanatinai expected to act?
	www.mta.ca /~awalsh/2401readingquestions.htm (694 words)

	116syl
		10/24 Is Gender Equality Possible: A Case Study from Vanatinai
		Would these jokes be funny to someone from Vanatinai, for example, or any other ethnographic context studied in the course?
		Each student is required to complete a critical analysis of reading (CAR) for two of the assigned readings, as noted.
	www.aarweb.org /syllabus/syllabi/v/varisco/1JMC9/145syl.html (2189 words)

	EDGE 28
		MARIA LEPOWSKY is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin.
		She is author of Fruit of the Motherland: Gender in an Egalitarian Society (Columbia University Press), and Dreaming of Islands (Knopf, forthcoming)m based on her research on the island of Vanatinai.
		I'm curious about why you guys called the "Reality Club" that.
	edge.org /documents/archive/edge28.html (8582 words)

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