Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Wahgi Valley /

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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 women's lives in the Wahgi Valley, Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. ... Each chapter adds to the main story that Reay wanted to tell, cont...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reay, Marie, 1922-2004 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Merlahn, Francesca (Editor ), Stathern, Marilyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: ANU, Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2014.
Temas:
Women > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions.
Women > Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs.
Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs.
Femmes > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Mœurs et coutumes.
Wahgi (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs
Women > Social conditions
Women > Social life and customs
Papua New Guinea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. ... 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 maried women."--Back cover.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (268 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index.
ISBN:9781925022162
1925022161
9781925022155
1925022153

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