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Gender rituals : female initiation in Melanesia / edited by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe.
- 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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| Text | Request in advance | GN671.N5 G46 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 265 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Initiation rites > Papua New Guinea
- Puberty rites > Papua New Guinea
- Female genital mutilation > Papua New Guinea
- Women > Papua New Guinea
- Women > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions
- Sekseverschillen
- Meisjes
- Initiatie
- Rites d'initiation > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Rites de puberté > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Excision (Ethnologie) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Femmes > Rites et cérémonies > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Femmes > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Conditions sociales
- Rites de passage > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Excision (ethnologie) > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Femmes > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Rites et cérémonies
- Initiation
- Frau
- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Moeurs et coutumes
- Melanesien
- Initiation rites
- Papua New Guinea
- Genre/Form
- Texts
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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 and 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.
- ISBN
- 0415911060 (cl. : acid-free paper)
- 9780415911061 (cl. : acid-free paper)
- 0415911079 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780415911078 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^94039869^
- OCLC
- 31436711
- SCSB-12684071
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library