The Sambia: Ritual, Sexuality, and Change in Papua New Guinea

The Sambia: Ritual, Sexuality, and Change in Papua New Guinea
Author: Gilbert Herdt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes rich material on initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including the United States. For example, Sambia boys experience ritualized homosexuality before puberty and continue this practice until marriage, after which homosexual activity is prohibited. The implications are developed cross-culturally and contextualized in gender literature. This new edition contains updated information about the Sambian ritualization and socialization of gender practices and will include a new chapter on sexuality, gender and social change among the Sambia. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

The Sambia

The Sambia
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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.

Sambia Sexual Culture

Sambia Sexual Culture
Author: Gilbert Herdt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1999-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226327523

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.

The Gender of the Gift

The Gender of the Gift
Author: Marilyn Strathern
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1988-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520910713

In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.

Secrecy and Cultural Reality

Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Author: Gilbert Herdt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 047209761X

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Gender Diversity in Indonesia

Gender Diversity in Indonesia
Author: Sharyn Graham Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135169845

Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. This book explores dominant theories of gender and sexuality in relation to gender diversity in Indonesia. It discusses in particular intersexed groups, such as 'calalai', 'calabai' and 'bissu'.

Neither Man Nor Woman

Neither Man Nor Woman
Author: Serena Nanda
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how Hijras can be used in the study of gender categories and human sexual variation.

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia

Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520341384

This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984. This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture

The Sambia

The Sambia
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher: Ingram
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2002
Genre: Initiation rites
ISBN: 9780534442491

Rituals of Manhood

Rituals of Manhood
Author: Gilbert H. Herdt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351321307

Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to anthropologists of the late twentieth century. When in an earlier time anthropologists and sociologists described collective initiation rituals, the political and gender aspects of these practices were seldom underscored. Today, the power relationships of the body and domination, and the social arena of gender politics are widely regarded as critical to the cultural meaning and interpretation.