Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house

Publication Data

• Title Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house
• Author Gilbert H. Herdt
• Publisher University of Michigan Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Language English

Contents

Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies
Why secrecy?
Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976
Paradox of the men's house
Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality.

Topics

• Sambia (Papua New Guinea people) :: Rites and ceremonies
• Sambia (Papua New Guinea people) :: Sexual behavior
• Secret societies :: Papua New Guinea
• Initiation rites :: Papua New Guinea
• Sex customs :: Papua New Guinea
• Homosexuality, Male :: Papua New Guinea
• Papua New Guinea :: Social life and customs
• Papua New Guinea

Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house by Gilbert H. Herdt. ISBN 0472067613. Published by University of Michigan Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.