Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society : women's lives in the Wahgi Valley / Marie Olive Reay ; editor, Francesca Merlan ; contributor, Marilyn Stathern.
Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index.
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. ... 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.
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.
