Anthropos: Anthropos, 59.1964

Anthropos, 59.1964

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711746

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711746

Persistent identifier:: 1510143432746

Title:: Anthropos, 59.1964

Year of Publication:: 1964

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 59, 1964, Heft 1-2

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Article

Title:: Women's Lives in the Highlands of New Guinea

Other person:: Aufenanger, H.

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Women’s Lives in the Highlands of New Guinea By H. Aufenanger Contents: Introduction The Different Tribes 1. Dagl 13. Komkane 2. Vaugla 14. Tsiako 3. Tsiambugla 15. Kulxkane 4. Kaxnanugu 16. Kigin 5. Kondelxka 17. Golin 6. Pala or Paglau 18. Kumngo 7. Gegeru 19. Ruma 8. Guy evi 20. Kunanagu 9. Duakai 21. Ndika 10. Karizoko 22. Numai 11. Dengglagu 23. Dom 12. Vandeke 24. Yuri Introduction It is well known that the life of a woman in New Guinea is not an easy one, especially not in the Highlands. She has to live in a very low house in which she cannot stand upright and where there is no comfort of any kind- She usually sleeps on a rain-mat on the ground. The smoke that fills her house hardly allows her to breathe. She lives together with pigs, separated from them only by a fence of sticks. Imagine the constant stench from the pigsties! A woman’s house is usually infested with lice, bed-bugs, fleas, and cockroaches- She is expected to do most of the garden work: the planting, weeding» collecting and carrying home of all the food in heavy netbags on her back- It may be said that she has to work in her garden practically every day- Moreover, she must watch over her children, her pigs, and the family treasures- Needless to say, she has to do the cooking for all her folks and to feed the pkv and fowls. What little spare time she has is taken up with knitting netbag 5 or men’s and women’s caps. And yet she often enough gets abused or even beaten up by her husband. If we add to all this the terror she undergoes e>n

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