{"product_id":"kinship-to-kingship-9780292724587","title":"Kinship to Kingship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gailey has tacked with confidence and thoroughness a range of extremely challenging issues fundamental to feminist anthropology and Polynesian ethnography in a pioneering and ambitious analysis for which she is to be congratulated.\" - Journal of Polynesian Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part One: The Quest for Origins \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. The Subordination of Women: Gender in Transitions from Kinship to Class \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. State Formation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Two: Gender and Kinship Relations in Precontact Tonga \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Authority and Ambiguity: Rethinking Tongan Kinship \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. The Reproduction of Ambiguity: Succession Disputes, Marriage Patterns, and Foreigners \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Division of Labor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Exchange and Value \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Gender Relations at Contact \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part Three: Conversion, Commodities, and State Formation \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 8. Early Contact \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 9. Missionaries: The Crusade for Christian Civilization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 10. A Native Kingdom: Creating Class and Gender Stratification \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 11. Changing Production: Commodities, Tribute, and Forced Labor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 12. Dialectics of Class and State Formation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix: Sources and Methods \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glossary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400859099479,"sku":"9780292724587","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292724587.jpg?v=1730471766","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kinship-to-kingship-9780292724587","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}