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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.
Abstract
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.
- 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
- 1972-1974, 1981
- Coverage Date
- 1970-1980
- Coverage Place
- Peilungua mountain range, northwest of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- Margaret Holmes Williamson
- Includes bibliographical references(p. 22-23)
- LCSH
- Kwoma (Papua New Guinean people)