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Sex relations and gender relations: understanding Kwoma conception
Mankind • 14 (1) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 13-23
By: Williamson, Margaret Holmes.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses Kwoma conception theory. It shows that the Kwoma regard men and woman as mutually dependent equals, and tht they regard women as the fertile sex that men must capture and keep so as to reproduce their patrilineages. It also shows that the relationship between men and women is analogous to that between Kwoma and a class of bush spirits called sikilwas, the true source of all fertility and well-being.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Conception
- Pregnancy
- Difficult and unusual births
- Abortion and infanticide
- Extramarital sex relations
- Ethnoanatomy
- Family relationships
- Sexual intercourse
- General character of religion
- Organized ceremonial
- Life and death
- Avoidance and taboo
- Organized ceremonial
- Gender roles and issues
- Gender status
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kwoma
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1974, 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peilungua mountain range, northwest of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Holmes Williamson
- Includes bibliographical references(p. 22-23)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kwoma (Papua New Guinean people)