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Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house
- Author
- Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
- Title
- Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house / Gilbert Herdt.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, c2003.
- Description
- xviii, 269 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/2003001358.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index.
- Contents
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- Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies
- Why secrecy?
- Paradox of the men's house
- Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality.
- Kinsey subjects
- Social customs--Papua New Guinean. Sex behavior--Papua New Guinean. Secret societies--Papua New Guinea. Initiation rites--Papua New Guinea. Sex customs--Papua New Guinea. Homosexuality--Male--Papua New Guinea.
- Subject headings
- Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.