• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Fighting Back Is Not the Way: Suicide and the Women of Kaliai
  • Beteiligte: Counts, Dorothy Ayers
  • Erschienen: American Anthropological Association, 1980
  • Erschienen in: American Ethnologist
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0094-0496; 1548-1425
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  • Beschreibung: <p>A case study of the suicide of a young Kaliai girl in northwest New Britain, Papua New Guinea introduces a discussion of suicide as an expression of power by otherwise powerless people, and a consideration of the validity of using the legal terms suicide and homicide in a cross-cultural context. Data on different forms of self-killing practiced by Kaliai women support the argument that these terms are inadequate and inappropriate when applied to people who do not share European legal and cultural traditions. [suicide, women, political behavior, comparative legal systems, Melanesia]</p>
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