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Lives on the Line examines women's issues, including reproduction, in Butaritari, an equitorial Pacific atoll 15 kilometers long and a few hundred meters wide. This case study is about how contraints of ecology and the contingencies of history weave through patterns of human activity on Butaritari Atoll. Appropriate as a supplement to women's studies courses, human ecology, medical anthropology, or Pacific anthropology. Features: * Provides a record of European contact with Butaritari over the last centruty and examines resultant changes. * Topics of health, healing, sexuality and reproduction are used to show the connections between human behavior, culture and ecology. * Relates both practical and emotional challenges of fieldwork and how they affect the process and outcome of research. * Examines the history of endemic and introduced disease on the island, as well as their effect on women's health and the health of children. * Provides a personal account of the relationship between gender and coercion and control in a culture where environmental constraints and lack of resources amplify gender roles and sexual behavior.

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