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

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

Miriam Kahn

187 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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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 feast, are all questions uppermost in their thou...

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