Women in Between: Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea: Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea (Revised) (Classics in Anthropology)

by Deborah Cewertz (Foreword), Marilyn Strathern (Author)

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  1995

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  This ethnographic text examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyses the power of women in their male-dominated system. It cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society.