Headless ghosts and roving women: Specters of modernity in Papua New Guinea

American Ethnologist

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-32

  Wardlow, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridewealth; Modernity; Myth; Sexuality; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036013577     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2002.29.1.5     Document Type: Article

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