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Author:
Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Title:
Secrecy & cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house / Gilbert Herdt.
Publisher:
University of Michigan,
Copyright Date:
c2003
Description:
xviii, 269 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Sambia (Papua New Guinean people)--Rites and ceremonies.
Sambia (Papua New Guinean people)--Sexual behavior.
Secret societies--Papua New Guinea.
Initiation rites--Papua New Guinea.
Sex customs--Papua New Guinea.
Male homosexuality--Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index.
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.
ISBN:
9780472067619
0472067613 (Paper : alk. paper)
9780472097616
047209761X (Cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)51519550
LCCN:
2003001358
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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