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

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
Otros Autores: Reay, Marie, 1922-2004, autor (autor), Merlahn, Francesca, editor (editor), Stathern, Marilyn (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: ANU, Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press 2014.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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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 recurso electrónico (268 p.)
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas(page 193) e índice.
ISBN:9781925022162
9781925022155