Gender Rituals
Female Initiation in Melanesia
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 August 1995
- ISBN 9780415911078
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English 0
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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.
"This volume, originally organized as a symposium under the auspices of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, adds significantly to knowledge about female initiation throughout Melanesia and the rest of the world. It contains substantive chapters on eight different cultural groups in disparate locations in the area...and every chapter not only contributes interesting data but advances theoretical and analytical understandings of ritual process in general. The volume is a "must" for anyone interested n ritual or Melanesia, but I recommend a much wider reading. All who have an interest in ritual, feminist analysis, gender, or contemprory anthropological theory will be well served by this collection Center For Pacific Islands Studies."
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia, Nancy C. Lutkehaus; Part 2 Defining Women: Gender Images in Female Initiation Rites; Chapter 2 Puberty Rites, Women's Naven, and Initiation, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; Chapter 3 In the Shadow of the Tambaran, Paul B. Roscoe; Part 3 Achieving Womanhood: The Life Cycle as Cultural Performance; Chapter 4 Achieving Womanhood and the Achievements of Women in Murik Society, Kathleen Barlow; Chapter 5 Transforming Women, Deane Fergie; Chapter 6 Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Ritual, Thomas Maschio; Part 4 The Female Body and Life-Cycle Rites as Metaphor; Chapter 7 The Washed and the Unwashed, Patricia K. Townsend; Chapter 8 Gender Metaphors, Nancy C. Lutkehaus; Chapter 9 Marriage as the Model for a New Initiation Ritual, Lorraine Sexton; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 10 ?Initiation? in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Paul B. Roscoe;
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