@article{1354934,
      recid = {1354934},
      author = {Gillison, Gillian,},
      title = {She speaks her anger : myths and conversations of Gimi  women : a psychological ethnography in the Eastern  Highlands of Papua New Guinea /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Taking a novel approach that adapts Freuds theory of the  Primal Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic  data on the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New  Guinea, focusing on womens lives, myths, and rituals.  Womens and mens separate myths and rites may be read as a  cycle of blame about which sex caused the ills of human  existence and is still at fault. However, the author  demonstrates that in public rites of exchange in which both  sexes participate, men appropriate and subvert womens  usages as a ritual strategy to undo motherhood and  confiscate children at puberty. In doing so, she reveals  how Gimi women both rebel against the male-dominated social  order and express understanding of why they also acquiesce.  The result of decades of fieldwork, writing and reflection,  this book offers an analysis of Gimi womens complex  understanding of their situation and presents a nuanced  picture of women in a society dominated by men. It  represents an important contribution to New Guinea  ethnography that will appeal to students and scholars of  psychoanalysis, gender studies, and cultural, social and  psychoanalytic anthropology. Gillian Gillison is Associate  Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of  Toronto, Canada.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1354934},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49352-3},
}