Gender rituals : female initiation in Melanesia / edited by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and Paul B. Roscoe
Published
New York : Routledge, 1995
Copies
Description
xix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents
1. Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- 2. Puberty Rites, Women's Naven, and Initiation: Women's Rituals of Transition in Abelam and Iatmul Culture / Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin -- 3. In the Shadow of the Tambaran: Female Initiation Among the Ndu of the Sepik Basin / Paul B. Roscoe -- 4. Achieving Womanhood and the Achievements of Women in Murik Society: Cult Initiation, Gender Complementarity, and the Prestige of Women / Kathleen Barlow -- 5. Transforming Women: Being and Becoming in an Island Melanesian Society / Deane Fergie -- 6. Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Ritual / Thomas Maschio -- 7. The Washed and the Unwashed: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals among the Saniyo-Hiyowe of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea / Patricia K. Townsend -- 8. Gender Metaphors: Female Rituals as Cultural Models in Manam / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- 9. Marriage as the Model for a New Initiation Ritual / Lorraine Sexton
10. "Initiation" in Cross-Cultural Perspective / Paul B. Roscoe
Analysis
Initiation rites
Papua New Guinea
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index
