Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Wahgi Valley / Marie Olive Reay ; editor, Francesca Merlan ; contributor, Marilyn Stathern.
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TextPublisher: ANU, Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781925022162
- 1925022161
- 9781925022155
- 1925022153
- Women -- Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions
- Women -- Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
- Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
- Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women -- Social life and customs
- Papua New Guinea
- 305.409953 23
- HQ1866.5
Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index.
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay's field research from the 1950s and 1960s on women's lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. ... Each chapter adds to the main story that Reay wanted to tell, contrasting young girls' freedom to court and choose partners, with the constraints (and violence) they were to experience as maried women."--Back cover.
Chapter 1: The World of a Woman -- Chapter 2: Carrying Leg -- Chapter 3: A Girl is Marked -- Chapter 4: A Rubbish Man Takes a Wife -- Chapter 5: Lothario Gains a Bride -- Chapter 6: The Amazonian Mood -- Chapter 7: Meri Tultul -- Chapter 8: Wandering Wives -- Chapter 9: A Woman of the Kugika -- Chapter 10: The Witch-Girl and the Shrew -- Chapter 11: True Cousin -- Chapter 12: One Family -- Chapter 13: Laik Bilong Man -- Chapter 14: 'Wandering Women' and 'Good Women' -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E.
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