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This volume explores the multiple meanings and implications of lobola in Southern Africa. The payment of lobola (often controversially translated as ‘bridewealth’) is an entrenched practice in most societies in Southern Africa. Although having a long tradition, of late there have been voices questioning its relevance in contemporary times while others vehemently defend the practice. This book brings together a range of scholars from different academic disciplines, national contexts, institutions, genders, and ethnic backgrounds to debate the relevance of lobola in contemporary southern African communities for gender equality.

Bride price --- Bride purchase --- Bridewealth --- Lobola --- Lobolo --- Dowry --- Marriage --- Africa --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Sex. --- African Religions. --- African Culture. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Religion. --- Africa. --- History. --- Social aspects

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Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge. Challenging conventional understandings of "prostitution" and "sex work," Holly Wardlow contextualizes the actions and intentions of passenger women in a rich analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these robust social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy. Many passenger women assert that they have been treated "olsem maket" (like market goods) by their husbands and natal kin, and they respond by fleeing home and defiantly appropriating their sexuality for their own purposes. Experiences of rape, violence, and the failure of kin to redress such wrongs figure prominently in their own stories about becoming "wayward." Drawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women's own raw, caustic , and darkly funny narratives, Wayward Women provides a riveting portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested subjectivities.

Women, Huli --- Bride price --- Courtship --- Courting --- Wooing --- Betrothal --- Love --- Love-letters --- Marriage --- Bride purchase --- Bridewealth --- Lobola --- Lobolo --- Dowry --- Huli women --- Sexual behavior --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Tari District (Papua New Guinea) --- Femmes Huli --- Prix de la fiancée --- Amours --- Sexualité --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Tari (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : District) --- anthropologists. --- bridewealth. --- capitalist economy. --- contemporary papua new guinea. --- court cases. --- ethnography. --- female agency. --- gender issues. --- gender studies. --- gendered violence. --- huli women. --- marriage. --- modern world. --- new guinea society. --- nonfiction. --- papua new guinea. --- passenger women. --- personal experiences. --- prostitution. --- rape. --- sex workers. --- sexuality. --- social institutions. --- socioeconomic factors. --- transactional sex. --- village law. --- women and families. --- women. --- womens roles.

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If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles's birth-and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. Following this story as it is retold over centuries in literature and art, Women and Weasels takes us on a journey through mythology and ancient belief, revising our understanding of myth, heroism, and the status of women and animals in Western culture. Maurizio Bettini recounts and analyzes a variety of key literary and visual moments that highlight the weasel's many attributes. We learn of its legendary sexual and childbearing habits and symbolic association with witchcraft and midwifery, its role as a domestic pet favored by women, and its ability to slip in and out of tight spaces. The weasel, Bettini reveals, is present at many unexpected moments in human history, assisting women in labor and thwarting enemies who might plot their ruin. With a parade of symbolic associations between weasels and women-witches, prostitutes, midwives, sisters-in-law, brides, mothers, and heroes-Bettini brings to life one of the most venerable and enduring myths of Western culture.

Alcmene (Greek mythology) --- Childbirth --- Weasels --- Women --- Mythology. --- birth, maternity, women, gender, feminism, greece, rome, ancient world, mythology, midwife, heracles, hera, animals, western culture, heroism, status, patriarchy, literature, folklore, nonfiction, literary theory, religion, classics, weasels, pregnancy, medicine, sexuality, witchcraft, domesticity, pets, prostitutes, sisters, mother in law, bride, hero, shero, heroine, archetype, alcmene, pliny, rescuer, forest, godmother.

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The author describes Rindi culture within an analytic framework that illustrates connexions between, and common principles among, often apparently disparate realms of thought and action. The book contains chapters on the house; the village and the domain (an aggregate of villages); space and cosmos; religion (the notions 'hamangu' and 'ndewa'; divinity and the ancestors; the powers of the earth); the cycle of life and death; social order (class stratification; the division of authority; descent groups) and the system of asymmetric prescriptive alliance by which it is governed; marriage prestations and the various ways of contracting a marriage. The study is based on 22 months of fieldwork.

Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Sumba Island (Indonesia) --- Indonesia --- Social life and customs. --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Pulau Sumba (Indonesia) --- Sandalwood Island (Indonesia) --- Soemba Island (Indonesia) --- Lesser Sunda Islands --- Endonèsie --- Indanezii︠a︡ --- Indoneshia --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- Indonesië --- Indonesya --- Indonezia --- Indonezii︠a︡ --- Indonezija --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Indūnīsīyā --- Induonezėjė --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā --- PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- R.I. (Republik Indonesia) --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesië --- Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- Republika Indonezii︠a︡ --- Republika Indonezija --- Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ --- RI (Republik Indonesia) --- United States of Indonesia --- Yinni --- Рэспубліка Інданезія --- Република Индонезия --- Индонезия --- Інданезія --- إندونيسيا --- جمهورية إندونيسيا --- インドネシア --- インドネシア共和国 --- Dutch East Indies --- indonesia --- Betel --- Bride price --- Genealogy --- Marapu --- Patrilineality --- Ratu --- Sumba --- Village