Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Will be published approx. on 2. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-472-06761-9 (ISBN)
Description
Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 photograph, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-06761-9 (9780472067619)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies -- Why secrecy? -- Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976 -- Paradox of the men's house -- Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality.