Wives 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 Strathern

• Autore: Reay Marie <1922-2004, >
• Pubblicazione: Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (lxvi, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits (some colour)
• Disciplina: 305.4209953
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): MerlanFrancesca; StrathernMarilyn
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society
• ISBN: 1-925022-16-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910132418403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II