Ritual, power, and gender
Subtitle: explorations in the ethnography of Vanuatu, Nepal, and Ireland
By: Michael Allen.
Contributors: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture.
Series: Sydney studies in society and culture
Publisher: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture and Manohar Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Leichhardt, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Ethnology -- Vanuatu.; Ethnology -- Nepal.; Ethnology -- Ireland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I MEN, RITUAL AND POWER IN NORTH VANUATU; title: 1 Rank and Leadership in Nduindui, Northern New Hebrides; title: 2 Rethinking Old Problems: Matriliny, Secret Societies; title: and Political Evolution; title: 3 Ritualized Homosexuality, Male Power and Political; title: Organization in North Vanuatu: A Comparative Analysis; title: 4 The 'Hidden' Power of Male Ritual: The North; title: Vanuatu Evidence 1; title: 5 Male Cults Revisited: The Politics of Blood versus; title: Semen 1; title: II BUDDHIST RITUAL AND CASTE HIERARCHY IN NEPA; title: 6 Buddhism without Monks: The Vajrayana Religion; title: of the Newars of Kathmandu 1; title: 7 Kumari or 'Virgin' Worship in Kathmandu Valley 1; title: 8 Girls' Pre-Puberty Rites among the Newars of; title: Kathmandu Valley 2; title: 9 Hierarchy and Complementarity in Newar Society 2; title: 10 Procession and Pilgrimage in Newar Religion 2; title: III EXPLORATIONS IN IRISH CATHOLICISM; title: 11 'Our Lady' versus the Bishops: Visions and Pilgrimages; title: in Contemporary Irish Catholicism 2; title: 12 From Ecstasy to Power: The Transformation of Fantasy; title: into Religious Belief 3; title: General Index 3; title: Index of Persons 3.