Gender Rituals
Subtitle: Female Initiation in Melanesia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 29, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780415911078
First sentence: One of the primary insights to emerge from the anthropological study of initiation in Papua New Guinea, and Melanesia in general, over the past decade or so has been an awareness of the complex, multidimensional nature of these rites (e.g. Keesing 1982; Strathern 1988; Whitehead 1986), and the comprehension that a single initiatory rite or set of rites may "do" several things at once (see Roscoe's conclusion to this volume).