Description: Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society :

Full title:	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.
Main author:	Reay, Marie, 1922-2004, (Author)
Other authors:	Merlahn, Francesca, (Editor) Stathern, Marilyn.
Format:	eBook
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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.
Other authors:	Merlahn, Francesca, (Editor), Stathern, Marilyn.
Language:	English
Published:	ANU, Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2014.
Classmark:	305.409953
Subjects:	Women > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions. Women > Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs. Wahgi (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies. Women > Social conditions. Women > Social life and customs. Papua New Guinea. Electronic books.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index.
ISBN:	9781925022162 1925022161 9781925022155 1925022153