Wayward women
Subtitle: sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society
By: Holly Wardlow.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Women, Huli -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District -- Sexual behavior.; Women, Huli -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District -- Social conditions.; Women, Huli -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District -- Economic conditions.; Bride price -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District.; Courtship -- Papua New Guinea -- Tari District; Tari District (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions.; Tari District (Papua New Guinea) -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Tari is a jelas place" : the fieldwork setting; title: "To finish my anger" : body and agency among Huli women; title: "I am not the daughter of a pig!" : the changing dynamics of bridewealth; title: "You, I don't even count you" : becoming a pasinja meri; title: "Eating her own vagina" : passenger women and sexuality; title: "When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready" : the Huli dawe anda; title: Conclusion.