[Mihalic] Wayward Women

Thomas Slone THSlone at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 13 04:08:16 EST 2006


Here are a few new terms from the book Wayward Women: Sexuality and 
Agency in a New Guinea Society by Holly Wardlow (University of 
California Press, 2006).  Wardlow's fieldwork was among the Huli in 
the Southern Highlands.

go ausait: to make matters public
jelas: jealous, covetous
goap goap nating: to have sex with no purpose
diskraibim: to verbally sexualize, to talk about someone's body in public
sik gonolia: any sexually transmitted disease

--Tom Slone


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