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Secrecy & cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house / Gilbert Herdt.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Secrecy and cultural reality
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A compelling study of male ritual secrecy and its impact on the cultures of Melanesia and Papua New Guinea.
- Contents:
- Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies Why secrecy? Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976 Paradox of the men's house Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-59403-6
- 9786612594038
- 0-472-02625-9
- OCLC:
- 615633527
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