The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea

by Gilbert Herdt

Book Overview

This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes rich material on initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030689074
• ISBN13: 9780030689079
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An interesting Read

In interesting read. The Sambia are a people of a unique and intregueing culture and the insight this book provides is inmatched.