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Gender Rituals:

Female Initiation

in

Melanesia

edited by

Nancy C. Lutkehaus

Paul B. Roscoe


1995

New York and London: Routledge
from 1988 Symposium
Introduction: Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia
Nancy C. Lutkehaus
 
Puberty Rites, Women's Naven, and Initiation: Women's Rituals of Transition in Abelam and Iatmul Culture
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
 
In the Shadow of the Tambaran: Female Initiation among the Ndu of the Sepik Basin
Paul B. Roscoe
 
Achieving Womanhood and the Achievements of Women in Murik Society: Cult Initiation, Gender Complementarity, and the Prestige of Women
Kathleen Barlow
 
Transforming Women: Being and Becoming in an Island Melanesian Society
Deane Fergie
 
Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Ritual
Thomas Muschio
 
The Washed and the Unwashed: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals among the Saniyo-Hiyowe of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Patricia K. Townsend
 
Gender Metaphors: Female Rituals as Cultural Models in Manam
Nancy C. Lutkehaus
 
Marriage as the Model for a New Initiation Ritual
Lorraine Sexton
 
"Initiation" in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Paul B. Roscoe

     

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