Reay, Marie Olive.

Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (268 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Photographs -- Maps -- Editor's Introduction -- Introduction -- Preface -- 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 -- Obituary: Marie Olive Reay, Born Maitland, NSW, Died Booragul, NSW, 16 September 2004, Aged 821 -- Index.

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Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs.
Women -- Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions.
Women -- Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
Women -- Papua New Guinea -- Wahgi River Valley.


Electronic books.

HQ1866.5 -- .R439 2014eb

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