[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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