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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reay, Marie, 1922-2004, author.

Strathern, Marilyn, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Merlan, Francesca, editor.

Australian National University, issuing body.

Series:

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.

Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people).

Women--Papua New Guinea--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.

Women--Papua New Guinea--Wahgi River Valley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lxvi, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits (some colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2014

Canberra, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781925022162

1925022161

OCLC:

896985213

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_515940