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- catalog abstract ""Women as Unseen Characters is the first book to examine the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals, and the first systematic treatment of this issue for any part of the world. In this volume, leading Melanesian scholars build on recent ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Female seclusion and the enforcement of taboos were crucial elements of the ritual process: forms of presence in their own right." "Contributors here provide detailed accounts of the different kinds of female presence in various Papua New Guinea male rituals. When these are restored to the picture, the rituals can no longer be interpreted merely as an institution for reproducing male domination but must also be understood as a moment when the whole system of relations binding a male person to his kin is reorganized. By dealing with the participation of women, a totally neglected dimension of male rituals is added to our understanding."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13328295.
- catalog coverage "Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Women as Unseen Characters is the first book to examine the role of females in Papua New Guinea male rituals, and the first systematic treatment of this issue for any part of the world. In this volume, leading Melanesian scholars build on recent ethnographies that show how female kin had roles in male rituals that had previously gone unseen. Female seclusion and the enforcement of taboos were crucial elements of the ritual process: forms of presence in their own right." "Contributors here provide detailed accounts of the different kinds of female presence in various Papua New Guinea male rituals. When these are restored to the picture, the rituals can no longer be interpreted merely as an institution for reproducing male domination but must also be understood as a moment when the whole system of relations binding a male person to his kin is reorganized. By dealing with the participation of women, a totally neglected dimension of male rituals is added to our understanding."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.".
- catalog description "Sambia women's positionality and men's rituals / Gilbert Herdt -- Embodiments of detachment : engendering agency in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / Sandra C. Bamford -- When women enter the picture : looking at Anga initiations from the mothers' angle / Pascale Bonnemère -- Ujawe : the ritual transformation of sons and mothers / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- Bachelors and their spirit wife : interpreting the omatisia ritual of Porgera and Paiela / Aletta Biersack -- Cults, closures, collaborations / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Variability of women's "involvement" in Anga male initiations / Pierre Lemonnier -- Of human and spirit women : from mother to seductress to second wife / Polly Wiessner -- Relating to women : female presence in Melanesian "male cults" / Bruce M. Knauft.".
- catalog extent "vi, 254 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812237897 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Social anthropology in Oceania".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "Eastern Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands Province.".
- catalog subject "390/.09953 22".
- catalog subject "DU740.42 .W65 2004".
- catalog subject "Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people) Rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "Initiation rites Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands Province.".
- catalog subject "Puberty rites Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands Province.".
- catalog subject "Sambia (Papua New Guinean people) Rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "Secret societies Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands Province.".
- catalog subject "Women, Hamtai Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Women, Hamtai Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women, Sambia Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Women, Sambia Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sambia women's positionality and men's rituals / Gilbert Herdt -- Embodiments of detachment : engendering agency in the highlands of Papua New Guinea / Sandra C. Bamford -- When women enter the picture : looking at Anga initiations from the mothers' angle / Pascale Bonnemère -- Ujawe : the ritual transformation of sons and mothers / Marta A. Rohatynskyj -- Bachelors and their spirit wife : interpreting the omatisia ritual of Porgera and Paiela / Aletta Biersack -- Cults, closures, collaborations / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Variability of women's "involvement" in Anga male initiations / Pierre Lemonnier -- Of human and spirit women : from mother to seductress to second wife / Polly Wiessner -- Relating to women : female presence in Melanesian "male cults" / Bruce M. Knauft.".
- catalog title "Women as unseen characters : male ritual in Papua New Guinea / edited by Pascale Bonnemère.".
- catalog type "text".