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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reay, Marie, 1922-2004.

Contributor:

Stathern, Marilyn, editor.

Merlahn, Francesca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Reay, Marie Olive Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society

ISBN:

9781760464714

1760464716

OCLC:

1313892674