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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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- 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
- 1972-1973, 1981
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1970-1981
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret Holmes Williamson
- Includes bibliographical references(p. 14)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78645681
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kwoma (Papua New Guinean people)