03124 am 22006493u 450 991013241840332120221206102509.01-925022-16-1(CKB)3710000000347208(EBL)3543969(SSID)ssj0001515029(PQKBManifestationID)12614370(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001515029(PQKBWorkID)11480987(PQKB)11206354(OCoLC)896985213(Au-PeEL)EBL3543969(CaPaEBR)ebr11091050(MiAaPQ)EBC3543969(EXLCZ)99371000000034720820150903h20142014 uy 0engurcn#nnn|||||stirdacontenttxtrdacontentcrirdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society women's lives in the Waghi Valley /by Marie Olive Reay ; edited by Francesca Merlan ; with additional introduction by Marilyn StrathernCanberra, Australia :Australian National University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (lxvi, 202 pages) illustrations, maps, portraits (some colour)Knowledge UnlatchedIncludes index.1-925022-15-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society brings to the reader anthropologist Marie Reay's field research from the 1950's and 1960's 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. Had this manuscript appeared when Reay apparently completed it in its present form - around 1965 - it would have been the first published ethnography of women's lives in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Its retrieval from Reay's papers, and availability now, adds a new dimension to works on gender relations in Melanesian societies, and to the history of Australian and Pacific anthropology.Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people)Social life and customsWomenPapua New GuineaSocial conditionsWomenPapua New GuineaSocial life and customsWomenPapua New GuineaWahgi River ValleyWahgi (Papua New Guinean people)Social life and customs.WomenSocial conditions.WomenSocial life and customs.Women305.4209953Reay Marie1922-2004,974425Merlan FrancescaStrathern MarilynAustralian National University,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910132418403321Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society2218411UNINA