Fishing and the sexual division of labor among the Meriam

American Anthropologist

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 442-451

  Bird, Rebecca Blidge ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Division of labor; Fishing; Food sharing; Torres Strait

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548232344     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2007.109.3.442     Document Type: Article

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