Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society : Women's Lives in the Wahgi Valley

Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society Women's Lives in the Wahgi Valley

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reay, Marie, 1922-2004 (-)
Other Authors: Stathern, Marilyn, editor (editor), Merlahn, Francesca, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra : ANU Press 2022.
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009646439506719
Table of Contents:
  • 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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