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Working Separately but Eating Together: Personhood, Property, and Power in Conjugal Relations
Author(s) -
Li Tania Murray
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1998.25.4.675
Subject(s) - personhood , context (archaeology) , power (physics) , property (philosophy) , sociology , futures contract , gender studies , southeast asia , epistemology , ethnology , history , economics , philosophy , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics , financial economics
In this article I apply the conceptual repertoire developed by feminist scholars in Africa to examine concepts of personhood, property, and the conjugal contract in Southeast Asia. I suggest that as theory travels, it offers fresh insight in the new context in which it is deployed and is itself enriched. Studies of urban Singapore and upland Sulawesi illustrate the ways in which cultural ideas are reworked as women and men reposition themselves and attempt to secure their economic futures in the context of changing material conditions and shifting fields of power. [gender, property, personhood, work, power, theory, Southeast Asia]