Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Waghi Valley /
by Marie Olive Reay ; edited by Francesca Merlan ; with additional introduction by Marilyn Strathern.
Bok Engelsk 2014 Marie Reay,· Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (lxvi, 202 pages) : : illustrations, maps, portraits (some colour)
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - 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 that Reay wanted to tell, contrasting young girls' freedom to court and choose partners, with the constraints (and violence) they were to experience as married women. Had this manuscript appeared when Reay apparently completed it in its present form - around 1965 - it would have been the first published ethnography of women's lives in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Its retrieval from Reay's papers, and availability now, adds a new dimension to works on gender relations in Melanesian societies, and to the history of Australian and Pacific anthropology.
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| ISBN | 1-925022-16-1
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