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Bride price --- Dowry --- Congresses --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H1220 --- -Dowry --- -Dos --- Husband and wife --- Marriage law --- Bride purchase --- Bridewealth --- Lobola --- Lobolo --- Marriage --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Gezinssociologie: vergelijkende en cross-culturele studies --- -Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Dos

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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.