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Sambia sexual culture : essays from the field
- Title
- Sambia sexual culture : essays from the field / Gilbert Herdt.
- Author
- Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation.
- Series Statement
- Worlds of desire
- Uniform Title
- Worlds of desire
- Subject
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Sexual behavior
- Initiation rites > Papua New Guinea
- Sex customs > Papua New Guinea
- Sex symbolism
- Male homosexuality > Papua New Guinea
- Masculinity > Papua New Guinea
- Ethnology
- Homosexuality, Male
- Sexual Behavior
- Ethnology
- Initiation rites
- Male homosexuality
- Manners and customs
- Masculinity
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Sexual behavior
- Sex customs
- Sex symbolism
- Sambia Volk
- Sexualität
- Volkskultur
- Sexualverhalten
- Initiatie
- Sambia (volk)
- Seksuele gebruiken
- Homoseksualiteit
- Sambia (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Sexualité
- Rites d'initiation > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Homosexualité masculine > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Masculinité > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Vie sexuelle > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs
- Papua New Guinea
- Papua-Neuguinea
- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Moeurs et coutumes
- Sambia <Volk>
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Sexual Cultures, Strange and Familiar -- 1. Songs in the Key of Life -- 2. Sambia Sexual Culture -- 3. Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Initiation -- 4. Sambia Nosebleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Females -- 5. Semen Depletion and the Sense of Maleness -- 6. Father Presence and Ritual Homoeroticism: Paternal Deprivation and Masculinity in Melanesia Reconsidered -- 7. Developmental Discontinuities and Sexual Orientation across Cultures -- 8. Mistaken Sex: Culture, Biology, and the Third Sex in New Guinea -- 9. Representations of"Homosexuality": Cultural Ontology and Historical Comparison.
- ISBN
- 0226327515
- 9780226327518
- 0226327523
- 9780226327525
- LCCN
- 98054692
- OCLC
- ocm40510521
- 40510521
- SCSB-860712
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library