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Gilbert Herdt

Sambia Sexual Culture

Essays from the Field

335 pages, 21 halftones, 4 tables  6 x 9  © 1999
Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226327518   Published June 1999

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226327525   Published June 1999

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sexual Cultures, Strange and Familiar
1. Songs in the Key of Life
2. Sambia Sexual Culture
3. Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Initiation
4. Sambia Nosebleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Females
5. Semen Depletion and the Sense of Maleness
6. Father Presence and Ritual Homoeroticism: Paternal Deprivation and Masculinity in Melanesia Reconsidered
7. Developmental Discontinuities and Sexual Orientation across Cultures
8. Mistaken Sex: Culture, Biology, and the Third Sex in New Guinea
9. Representations of "Homosexuality": Cultural Ontology and Historical Comparison
Bibliography
Credits
Index
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