| Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Herdt, Gilbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226327493 ISBN-13: 9780226327495 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1994 Annotation: This unique study of boy-inseminating rituals among the Sambia of New Guinea challenges our deepest assumptions about the role of culture in understanding homosexuality and gender-identity development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Psychology |
| Dewey: 392.140 |
| LCCN: 94025986 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.16" W x 9.04" (1.28 lbs) 402 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the first systematic documentation of New Guinea rituals of manhood, Gilbert Herdt places the homosexual customs of the Sambia in their ecological and ideological contexts while exploring what they mean to the individuals who practice them. Raising a host of issues concerning gender identity, hostility between the sexes, and the relationships between myth, culture, and personal experience, Herdt provides a vivid and convincing portrait of how Sambia men experience their sexual development. |
Contributor Bio(s): Herdt, Gilbert: - Gilbert Herdt is professor and director of the Graduate Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and director emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. His books include "Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field", also published by the University of Chicago Press. |