Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity

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University of Chicago Press, 15 дек. 1994 г. - Всего страниц: 382
In the first systematic documentation of New Guinea rituals of manhood, Gilbert Herdt places the homosexual customs of the Sambia in their ecological and ideological contexts while exploring what they mean to the individuals who practice them. Raising a host of issues concerning gender identity, hostility between the sexes, and the relationships between myth, culture, and personal experience, Herdt provides a vivid and convincing portrait of how Sambia men experience their sexual development.
 

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Introduction
1
ONE People of the Mountain Forest
21
TWO Idioms and Verbal Behavior
57
THREE The Inward Cosmos
71
FOUR Genderizing the Pandanus Tree
97
FIVE The Phantom Cassowary
131
SIX Femininity
159
SEVEN Masculinity
203
On the problem of symbolic meaning and its relationship to field conditions among the Sambia
327
APPENDIX B Nilutwos Dreams
342
APPENDIX C The Myth of Cassowary
348
APPENDIX D On the Origins of Warfare and Initiation
351
APPENDIX E The Myth of Gandei
352
References
355
Name Index
369
Subject Index
373

A Myth and Its Meaning
255
NINE Conclusion
295

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Gilbert Herdt is professor and director of the Graduate Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and director emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. His books include Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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