Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Waghi Valley

Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society women's lives in the Waghi Valley

Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay's field research from the 1950's and 1960's on women's lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Dramatically written, each chapter adds to the main story...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Australian National University, issuing body (issuing body)
Otros Autores: Reay, Marie, 1922-2004, author (author), Merlan, Francesca, editor (editor), Strathern, Marilyn, author of introduction, etc (author of introduction etc)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press 2014
2014.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Knowledge Unlatched
Materias:
Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs.
Women > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions.
Women > Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
Women > Papua New Guinea > Wahgi River Valley.
papua new guinea
social sciences
pacific
women
gender
Anthropology
Bird
Buda
Ethnography
Hardwood
Insect
Pig
Wahgi language
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423720206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Photographs
  • Maps
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • 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
  • Obituary: Marie Olive Reay, Born Maitland, NSW, Died Booragul, NSW, 16 September 2004, Aged 821
  • Index.

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