Abstract
This chapter explores the institution of marriage as a key intimate arena of change, expectation, and experience, as well as the 'focus of pragmatic strategies and behaviour, and the locus of intense moral scrutiny and social preoccupation' in PNG. It discusses the various forms and experiences of marriage that shape Gogodala intimate lives: from companionate ideals of sexual and emotional intimacy, legal frameworks, Christian values and practices, to ones that privilege 'hard work', relationality, and continuity of collective, as well as personal connections and wealth. Hard work oko kalekalebega then, was at the centre of exchange marriages and intimate citizenship, in which men and women came together to create wealth in the production and reproduction of people, groups, and things. The chapter explores the ways in which 'Christian marriage' was central to notions of being a 'good' Christian woman or man and became a primary focus in the conversion of villagers to evangelical Christianity.
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