Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society

by Miriam Kahn

Book Overview

The Wamira people of Papua New Guinea display what outsiders would describe as an obsession with food. Who owns how many pigs, how much taro grows in whose garden, and who contributes what food at a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881337765
• ISBN13: 9780881337761
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.3"