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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791231803321

Autore

Herdt Gilbert H. <1949->

Titolo

Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house / / Gilbert H. Herdt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-59403-6

9786612594038

0-472-02625-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : maps

Disciplina

305.8/89912

Soggetti

Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) - Rites and ceremonies - Papua New Guinea

Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) - Sexual Behavior - Papua New Guinea

Secret societies - Papua New Guinea

Initiation rites - Papua New Guinea

Sex customs - Papua New Guinea

Male homosexuality - Papua New Guinea

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies Why secrecy? Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976 Paradox of the men's house Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality