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Women and Property in Morocco: Their Changing Relation to the Process of Social Stratification in the Middle Atlas
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Product Description: This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco. Vanessa Maher suggests that three systems of social stratification modify one another: a system of classes based on relation to the means of production; a system of estates, differentiated by inherited status; and a system of segmentary tribal groups, based on territorial rights...read more
By Vanessa Maher
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9780521040419 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 17, 2007, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco.

The Anthropology of Breast-Feeding: Natural Law or Social Construct
Product Description: On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues. The significance of breast-feeding reaches far beyond its biological function; in fact, the authors of this volume argue, there is nothing `natural' about breast-feeding itself...read more
By Vanessa Maher (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780854967216 | Berg Pub Ltd, July 1, 1992, cover price $104.95 | About this edition: On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues.

Paperback:

9780854968145 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 1992), cover price $37.95 | About this edition: On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues.

Women and Property in Morocco
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Product Description: This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco. Vanessa Maher suggests that three systems of social stratification modify one another: a system of classes based on relation to the means of production; a system of estates, differentiated by inherited status; and a system of segmentary tribal groups, based on territorial rights...read more
By Vanessa Maher
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Hardcover:

9780521205481 | Cambridge Business Research, January 1, 1975, cover price $44.50 | also contains How to Draw Cute Manga | About this edition: This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco.

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