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The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt.
Penn Museum Library DU740.42 .H45 1987
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LIBRA DU740.42 .H45 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
- Series:
- Case studies in cultural anthropology
- Case studies in cultural anthropology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people).
- Sex customs--Papua New Guinea.
- Sex customs.
- Initiation rites--Papua New Guinea.
- Initiation rites.
- Male homosexuality--Papua New Guinea.
- Male homosexuality.
- Masculinity--Papua New Guinea.
- Masculinity.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1987]
- Summary:
- This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including our own. Sambia boys experience ritualized homosexuality before puberty and do not leave it until marriage, after which homosexual activity is prohibited. The implications are developed cross-culturally and contextualized in gender literature.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 217-222.
- ISBN:
- 0030689074
- OCLC:
- 14214811
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