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Sex relations and gender relationsarticle 1983 • Williamson, Margaret Holmes
Kwoma • Oceania > Melanesia
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 sho...Incest, exchange, and the definition of women among the Kwomaarticle 1985 • Williamson, Margaret Holmes
Kwoma • Oceania > Melanesia
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 relatin...