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This study of women, men, and exchanges of wealth in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, makes an interesting comparison with the of pioneer ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, who conducted his seminal research there between 1915 and 1918. While Malinowski and others have focused on men, dismissing women's work as unimportant, Weiner shows that women play a vital role in Trobriand society.
Leach et al. (Wed,) studied this question.