Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points Paperback Stanford University Press
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Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points Paperback Stanford University Press

Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points

Stanford University Press
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Naven is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the naven ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The naven serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.



Author: Gregory Bateson
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/01/1958
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.43w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780804705202
ISBN10: 0804705208
BISAC Categories:
- History | Oceania