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Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society
- Author
- Wardlow, Holly.
- Title
- Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society / Holly Wardlow.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
- Description
- xi, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005028155.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005028155-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005028155-d.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction
- "Tari is a jelas place" : the fieldwork setting
- "To finish my anger" : body and agency among Huli women
- "I am not the daughter of a pig!" : the changing dynamics of bridewealth
- "You, I don't even count you" : becoming a pasinja meri
- "Eating her own vagina" : passenger women and sexuality
- "When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready" : the Huli dawe anda
- Conclusion.
- Kinsey subjects
- Ethnography--Papua New Guinea. Social conditions--Papua New Guinea. Women. Prostitution--Female--Papua New Guinea.
- ISBN
- 0520245598 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520245594 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520245601 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520245600 (pbk. : alk. paper)