Gender Studies, Australian & Oceanic Studies, Socio-Cultural Anthropology
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Overview
This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including our own. Sambia boys experience ritualized homosexuality before puberty and do not leave it until marriage, after which homosexual activity is prohibited. The implications are developed cross-culturally and contextualized in gender literature.
Book Details
Published
January 1, 1987
Publisher
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1987.
Pages
227
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780030689079