| Description |
1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
The world of a woman -- Carrying leg -- A girl is marked -- A rubbish man takes a wife -- Lothario gains a bride -- The Amazonian mood -- Meri Tultul -- Wandering wives -- A woman of the Kugika -- The witch-girl and the shrew -- True cousin -- One family -- Laik Bilong man -- "Wandering women" and "good women" |
| Summary |
Marie Olive Reay was a social anthropologist who did research in Australian indigenous communities and in the Wahgi Valley in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Employed at The Australian National University from 1959 to 1988 when she retired, Reay passed away in 2004. In 2011 this manuscript was found in her personal papers, reconstructed, and edited by Francesca Merlan, augmented here by an additional introduction by eminent anthropologist of the Highlands, and of gender, Marilyn Strathern. "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. 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. |
| Note |
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| Added Author |
Merlan, Francesca, Editor.
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Australian National University Press, publisher.
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Strathern, Marilyn, Contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society: women's lives in the Wahgi Valley Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2021 9781760464707 |
| ISBN |
9781760464714 (electronic book) |
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1760464716 (electronic book) |
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