Sambia Sexual Culture - Essays from the Field

Summary

This collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation; and the creation of a "third sex" in nature and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert Herdt, Gilbert H. Herdt, Herdt Gilbert
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780226327518
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32751-8
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 624 g
• Series: Worlds of desire; Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Papua New Guinea