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Incest, exchange, and the definition of women among the Kwoma
Anthropology • 8 (2) • Published In 1985 • Pages: 1-14
By: Williamson, Margaret Holmes.
Abstract
This article discusses ideas of incest among the Kwoma, an ethnic group inhabiting the Middle Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. It argues that Kwoma attitudes to intra-familial sexual relations cab be taken as expressions of cultural meanings relating to sibling and afficianl relationships. They are further related to the Kwoma ambigious view of women both as wives and sisters.
- Subjects
- Kinship regulation of sex
- Family relationships
- Kin relationships
- Sex and marital offenses
- Lineages
- Regulation of marriage
- Gender status
- Ethnopsychology
- Sexual intercourse
- Gender roles and issues
- Mythology
- culture
- Kwoma
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- 1972-1973, 1981
- Coverage Date
- 1970-1981
- Coverage Place
- Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- Margaret Holmes Williamson
- Includes bibliographical references(p. 14)
- LCCN
- 78645681
- LCSH
- Kwoma (Papua New Guinean people)