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I've heard Bougainville's Nagovisi people called matriarchal, but Papua in general and Bougainville in particular have some of the world's highest rates of misogynistic violence. Is this characterization of the Nagovisi accurate? If so, were other Papuans also less patriarchal before colonialism?

by /u/PablomentFanquedelic in /r/AskHistorians

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