ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Bride Price, Structural Violence, Social Reproduction
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Wardlow: problematizing prostitution and sex work among the huli of papua. Main argument: our westernized narrow assumptions about sex for money as purely an economic strategy fail to recognize what huli passenger women do. In the context of a bridewealth society, passenger women were not exercising radical resistance to the system, but rather critiquing men"s failures to live up to their duties as prescribed by that system. Some people prefer the term sex worker cause unlike prostitute; it suggests an income-generating activity rather than a totalizing identity. Among the huli, passenger woman is both a stigmatizing slur directed to women who are believed to engage in sexually illicit behaviour, however some women embrace it cause it symbolizes rebellion and autonomy. Pasinja meri/passenger women refers to women who have sex with many different people, usually exchanging sex for 19498. Most passenger woman were married at some point and became passenger women initially for emotional reasons.
