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Gender rituals : female initiation in Melanesia
- Title
- Gender rituals : female initiation in Melanesia / edited by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1995.
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- Description
- xix, 265 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
- Contents
- Feminist anthropology and female initiation in Melanesia / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Puberty rites, women's naven, and initiation: women's rituals of transition in Abelam and Iatmul culture / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin -- In the shadow of the Tambaran: female initiation among the Ndu of the Sepik Basin / Paul B. Foscoe -- Achieving womanhood and the achievements of women in Murik society: cult initiation, gender complementarity, and the prestige of women / Kathleen Barlow -- Transforming women: being a becoming in an island Melanesian society / Deane Fergie -- Mythic images and objects of myth in Rauto female puberty ritual / Thomas Maschio -- The Washed and the unwashed: women's life-cycle rituals among the Saniyo-Hiyowe of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea / Patricia K. Townsend -- Gender metaphors: female rituals as cultural models in Manam / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Marriage as the model for a new initiation ritual / Lorraine Sexton -- "Initiation" in cross-cultural perspective / Paul B. Roscoe.
- Call Number
- JFE 95-17937
- ISBN
- 0415911060 (cl. : acid-free paper)
- 0415911079 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 94039869
- OCLC
- 31436711
- Title
- Gender rituals : female initiation in Melanesia / edited by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 1995.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
- Added Author
- Lutkehaus, Nancy C.Roscoe, Paul Bernard, 1948-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 95-17937