The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea
used
Author(s): Gilbert Herdt
Secondhand.
This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including our own. Sambia boys experience ritualized homosexuality before puberty and do not leave it until marriage, after which homosexual activity is prohibited. The implications are developed cross-culturally and contextualized in gender literature
VG. Some pages are underlined
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Wadsworth Publishing Company
- : Wadsworth Publishing Company
- : 01 March 1987
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gilbert Herdt
- : Paperback
- : very good
- : 222
- : b&w illustrations