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Secrecy & cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house / Gilbert Herdt.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .H464 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people).
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people)--Sexual behavior.
- Secret societies--Papua New Guinea.
- Secret societies.
- Initiation rites--Papua New Guinea.
- Initiation rites.
- Sex customs--Papua New Guinea.
- Sex customs.
- Male homosexuality--Papua New Guinea.
- Male homosexuality.
- Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 269 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Secrecy and cultural reality
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, [2003]
- Summary:
- A compelling study of male ritual secrecy and its impact on the cultures of Melanesia and Papua New Guinea.
- Contents:
- Lewis Henry Morgan & Victorian secret societies
- Why secrecy?
- Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976
- Paradox of the men's house
- Colonialism & the dissolution of secret reality
- Afterword: secrecy & cultural relativism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 047209761X
- 0472067613
- OCLC:
- 51519550
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