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Gender Rituals - Female Initiation in Melanesia (Paperback)
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Gender Rituals - Female Initiation in Melanesia (Paperback)
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Since the 1960s anthropologists have studied initiation rites.
These rites can last for as long as a year and involve
circumcision, subincision, tooth-avulsion, blood-letting and
cicatrization; on the other hand, they may be short and painless.
The contributors to this volume draw together ethnographies of
female initiation rites in eight communities in Melanesia. 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.
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