In this 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 practise 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.
- ISBN10 0226327493
- ISBN13 9780226327495
- Publish Date 15 December 1994 (first published 1 January 1981)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition Univ of Chicago PR ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 402
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780226327495