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Women as unseen characters : male ritual in Papua New Guinea
- Title
- Women as unseen characters : male ritual in Papua New Guinea / edited by Pascale Bonnemère.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bonnemere, Pascale.
- Description
- vi, 254 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Social anthropology in Oceania
- Subjects
- Women, Hamtai > Social conditions
- Initiation rites > Papua New Guinea > Eastern Highlands Province
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs
- Women, Sambia > Attitudes
- Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Women, Hamtai > Attitudes
- Women, Sambia > Social conditions
- Secret societies > Papua New Guinea > Eastern Highlands Province
- Puberty rites > Papua New Guinea > Eastern Highlands Province
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
- Contents
- Sambia women's positionality and men's rituals / Gilbert Herdt -- Embodiments of detachment : engendering agency in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / Sandra C. Bamford -- When women enter the picture : looking at Anga initiations from the mothers' angle / Pascale Bonnemère -- Ujawe : the ritual transformation of sons and mothers / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- Bachelors and their spirit wife : interpreting the omatisia ritual of Porgera and Paiela / Aletta Biersack -- Cults, closures, collaborations / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Variability of women's "involvement" in Anga male initiations / Pierre Lemonnier -- Of human and spirit women : from mother to seductress to second wife / Polly Wiessner -- Relating to women : female presence in Melanesian "male cults" / Bruce M. Knauft.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-11872
- ISBN
- 0812237897 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2004041298
- OCLC
- 54500725
- Title
- Women as unseen characters : male ritual in Papua New Guinea / edited by Pascale Bonnemère.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.
- Series
- Social anthropology in Oceania
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
- Added Author
- Bonnemere, Pascale.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-11872