Brideprice and Prejudice: An Audio‐Visual Ethnography on Marriage and Modernity in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
The relationship between bridewealth and women's autonomy is not only discussed amongst anthropologists, development practitioners and other scholars but also amongst brides themselves. Women continue to embrace such marital exchanges, despite their knowledge of 'modern' development discourse about...
| Publicado en: | Oceania Vol. 90; no. 3; pp. 214 - 234 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2020
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