Title Women in between : female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea

Published London ; New York : Seminar Press, 1972

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Description xxi, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Series Seminar studies in anthropology ; no. 2 Seminar studies in anthropology ; no. 2 Contents Part I: Producers and transactors -- 1. Hagen society -- 2. Residence and work: the woman with her husband's kin -- 3. The household -- 4. The roads of marriage -- 5. Kin at her back -- 6. Producers and transactors -- Part II: The independent woman -- 7. Pollution and poison -- 8. Marital stability -- 9. Forces for blame -- 10. Settlement of disputes -- 11. Judicial status -- 12. Status, incorporation and commitment Analysis Ethnology Papua New Guinea Hagen, Mount, Region Hagen, Mount, Region (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs Medlpa (Papua New Guinea people) Social life and customs Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs Sex role Papua New Guinea Hagen, Mount, Region Notes Include index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) Subject Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Mount Hagen Ethnology -- New Guinea -- Mount Hagen Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Hagen Mount Region Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea. Medlpa (Papua New Guinean people) -- Social life and customs. Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Hagen, Mount, Region Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Hagen Mount Region Sex role -- Papua New Guinea -- Hagen, Mount, Region Women -- Papua New Guinea. Women -- New Guinea. Women -- Papua New Guinea -- Mount Hagen. Anthropology. Role. Women. SUBJECT Hagen, Mount, Region (Papua New Guinea) -- Social life and customs Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116522 New Guinea. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009512 LC no. 72183475 ISBN 0129139505 9780129139508

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