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Sambia Sexual Culture (Paperback)
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Few cultures have received as much attention in the study of erotic
desire, sexuality, and gender as the Sambia of Papua New Guinea.
Here, for the first time, is a collection of groundbreaking essays
and a new introduction on the Sambia's sexual culture by the
renowned anthropologist Gilbert Herdt.
Over the course of 20 years, Herdt made 13 field trips to live with
the Sambia in order to understand sexuality and ritual in the
context of warfare and gender segregation. Herdt's essays examine
Sambia fetish and fantasy, ritual nose-bleeding, the role of
homoerotic insemination, the role of the father and mother in the
process of identity formation, and the creation of a "third sex" in
nature and culture. He also discusses the representation of
homosexuality in cross-cultural literature on premodern societies,
arguing that scholars have long viewed desires through the tropes
of negative western models. Herdt asks us to reconsider the
realities and subjective experiences of desires in their own
context, and to rethink how the homoerotic is expressed in
radically divergent sexual cultures.
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