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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 of View

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

Bateson, Gregory

Hardcover

Series: Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of t

Australia & OceaniaChemistry

ISBN10: 0804705194
ISBN13: 9780804705196
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jun 1 1958
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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