Modernity without romance? Masculinity and desire in courtship stories told by young Papua New Guinean men

American Ethnologist

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-224

  Lipset, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bakhtin; Chronotopes; Masculinity; Modernity; Murik; Papua New Guinea; Romance; Sepik River

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042728646     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2004.31.2.205     Document Type: Review

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