LEADER 05431nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910463258703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0137-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201376 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418271 035 $a(OCoLC)859160959 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748569 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001054891 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11567497 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001054891 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11133435 035 $a(PQKB)11769889 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442143 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26825 035 $a(DE-B1597)448990 035 $a(OCoLC)979630902 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201376 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442143 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748569 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682326 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418271 100 $a20040218d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen as unseen characters$b[electronic resource] $emale ritual in Papua New Guinea /$fedited by Pascale Bonnemere 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 0 $aSocial anthropology in Oceania 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51044-X 311 $a0-8122-3789-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tNote for Readers --$tIntroduction. The Presence of Women in New Guinea Secret Male Rituals: From Ritual Space to Ritual Process --$t1. Sambia Womens Positionality and Men's Rituals /$rHerdt, Gilbert --$t2. Embodiments of Detachment: Engendering Agency in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea /$rBamford, Sandra C. --$t3. When Women Enter the Picture: Looking at Anga Initiations from the Mothers' Angle /$rBonnemère, Pascale --$t4. Ujawe: The Ritual Transformation of Sons and Mothers /$rRohatynskyj, Marta A. --$t5. The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual of Porgera and Paiela /$rBiersack, Aletta --$t6. Cults, Closures, Collaborations /$rStrathern, Andrew / Stewart, Pamela J. --$t7. The Variability of Women's Involvement" in Anga Male Initiations /$rLemonnier, Pierre --$t8. Of Human and Spirit Women: From Mother to Seductress to Second Wife /$rWiessner, Polly --$t9. Relating to Women: Female Presence in Melanesian "Male Cults" /$rKnauft, Bruce M. --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tContributors --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aRituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially true of the male initiation rituals that until recently were held in Papua New Guinea. For the most part, these rituals have been understood as all-male institutions, intended to maintain and legitimate male domination. Women's exclusion from the forest space where men conducted most such rites has been taken as a sign of their exclusion from the entire ritual process.Women as Unseen Characters is the first book to examine the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals, and the first systematic treatment of this issue for any part of the world. In this volume, leading Melanesian scholars build on recent ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Female seclusion and the enforcement of taboos were crucial elements of the ritual process: forms of presence in their own right.Contributors here provide detailed accounts of the different kinds of female presence in various Papua New Guinea male rituals. When these are restored to the picture, the rituals can no longer be interpreted merely as an institution for reproducing male domination but must also be understood as a moment when the whole system of relations binding a male person to his kin is reorganized. By dealing with the participation of women, a totally neglected dimension of male rituals is added to our understanding. 606 $aSambia (Papua New Guinean people)$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aHamtai (Papua New Guinean people)$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aWomen, Sambia$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen, Sambia$xAttitudes 606 $aWomen, Hamtai$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen, Hamtai$xAttitudes 606 $aInitiation rites$zPapua New Guinea$zEastern Highlands Province 606 $aPuberty rites$zPapua New Guinea$zEastern Highlands Province 606 $aSecret societies$zPapua New Guinea$zEastern Highlands Province 607 $aEastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSambia (Papua New Guinean people)$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aHamtai (Papua New Guinean people)$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aWomen, Sambia$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen, Sambia$xAttitudes. 615 0$aWomen, Hamtai$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen, Hamtai$xAttitudes. 615 0$aInitiation rites 615 0$aPuberty rites 615 0$aSecret societies 676 $a390/.09953 701 $aBonnemere$b Pascale$01056238 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463258703321 996 $aWomen as unseen characters$92490441 997 $aUNINA