The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt College,
1987.
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| Series: | Case studies in cultural anthropology
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Table of Contents:
- The behavioral environment The landscape. Population groupings. Economy. The gender problem. The regional picture.
- Warfare and social organization. A war is going on. Social structure. Jerungdu and the male ethos. Marriage and sexual antagonism. Masculine values and gender stereotypes. Religion. Warfare: the behavioral context.
- Ordinary people. Moondi. Kanteilo. Kaiyunango. Sakulambei. Weiyu.
- Gender and socialization. Concepts. Gender as a social principle. Hamlet security circle. Secrecy. Public morality. Beliefs about sexual differentiation. The two worlds. The family system. Pregnancy and birth. Childhood gender socialization. Aggressivity, shaming, control. Later socialization.
- The men's secret society. Initiation for strength. The ecology of initiation. The initiation cycle. Boys consciousness at initiation. Organizers and spectators. The initiations begin. The culthouse sceme. Moondi's decision. Third stage initiation. Second stage initiation. First stage initiation. The flute ceremony. The remaining festivities. The war raid. Marriage and fatherhood.
- Ritualized gender development: continuities and discontinuities. Gender discontinuity. Ritual brainwashing The liminality of age-mates. Ritual symbolism. Nose-bleeding rites. The secret of the flutes. Protest masculinity. Women's real power.
- The relativity of gender.