"Chopsticks Only Work In Pairs"

"Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs"

-- Emily Chao, The China Quarterly Review "This book is delightfully readable and as the same time thought-provoking, full of lively and sensitive ethnography...Finely written." -- Hayami Yoko, Asian Folklore Studies"A very powerful ethnography." -- Charles F. McKhann, Anthropos Review "Shanshan Du brilliantly captures the everyday practices of Lahu gender relations and pushes, in one broad stroke, the study of gender equality and inequality in new and compelling directions. It is destined to be a classic." -- Ralph Litzinger, Duke University About the Author Shanshan Du is assistant professor of anthropology at Tulane University and winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize of the American Ethnological Society and the Sylvia Forman Prize of the Association for Feminist Anthropology.