A true child of Papua New Guinea : memoir of a life in two worlds /

"Maggie Wilson was born in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Wilson's life serves as a window into the social and cultural transformations during the early years of the Australian administration in Papua New Guinea. Started as an autobiography and completed by Rosita Henry after Wilson�...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wilson, Maggie, 1953-2009 (Author)
Other Authors: Henry, Rosita (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Subjects:
Wilson, Maggie, > 1953-2009.
Racially mixed women > Papua New Guinea > Biography.
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea.
Métisses > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Biographies.
Ethnologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HISTORY > Oceania.
Ethnology
Racially mixed women
Papua New Guinea > Biography.
Papua New Guinea
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Birth and belonging
  • Tribal threads: the Elti Penambi
  • Entwined: law, life and land
  • Kuta Ridge: the white man's station
  • My village childhood
  • Off to school
  • My first return
  • Life with the Leahys
  • Australia in the 1970s
  • Picking up threads: back to PNG
  • Motherhood: Bernadine
  • Working woman
  • Tying the knot
  • A village baby: Olivia
  • Here comes Maki
  • The gift of Nadia
  • Weaving threads: women and politics
  • Making pictures
  • Friendship bonds: Haus Poroman (Rosita Henry)
  • Mending breaks: Haus Krai (Rosita Henry)
  • Reflections: tying up loose ends (Rosita Henry).

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