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Sambia sexual culture : essays from the field

Title
  1. Sambia sexual culture : essays from the field / Gilbert Herdt.
Published by
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Author
  1. Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

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Description
  1. xi, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Worlds of desire
Uniform title
  1. Worlds of desire
Subject
  1. Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
  2. Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Sexual behavior
  3. Initiation rites > Papua New Guinea
  4. Sex customs > Papua New Guinea
  5. Sex symbolism
  6. Male homosexuality > Papua New Guinea
  7. Masculinity > Papua New Guinea
  8. Ethnology
  9. Homosexuality, Male
  10. Sexual Behavior
  11. Ethnology
  12. Initiation rites
  13. Male homosexuality
  14. Manners and customs
  15. Masculinity
  16. Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Rites and ceremonies
  17. Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) > Sexual behavior
  18. Sex customs
  19. Sex symbolism
  20. Sambia Volk
  21. Sexualität
  22. Volkskultur
  23. Sexualverhalten
  24. Initiatie
  25. Sambia (volk)
  26. Seksuele gebruiken
  27. Homoseksualiteit
  28. Sambia (peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Sexualité
  29. Rites d'initiation > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
  30. Homosexualité masculine > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
  31. Masculinité > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
  32. Vie sexuelle > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
  33. Papua New Guinea > Social life and customs
  34. Papua New Guinea
  35. Papua-Neuguinea
  36. Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Moeurs et coutumes
  37. Sambia <Volk>
Genre/Form
  1. Essays.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315) and index.