Wives And Wanderers In A New Guinea Highlands Society : Women's Lives In The Wahgi Valley
REAY Marie Olive
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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 womens 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. This volume provides readable ethnographic material for undergraduate courses, in whole or in part. It will be of interest to students and scholars of gender relations, anthropology and feminism, Melanesia and the Pacific. The material in this bo ...
Publication date: 2022-01-01
Publisher: ANU Press
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Pasifika, Social Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Published in Australia, Papua New Guinea
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