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Gender And Society In The New Guinea Highlands
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Marilyn G. Gelber
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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The societies of the New Guinea Highlands are among the last-contacted horticulturalist peoples of the world. Endemic warfare, elaborate systems of exchange, fl
Wives and Wanderers in a New Guinea Highlands Society
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Marie Reay
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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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
The Gender of the Gift
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Marilyn Strathern
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-09-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular cas
The Sambia
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Gilbert H. Herdt
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company

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This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialization st
Wayward Women
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Holly Wardlow
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-08 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," this work explores the so