Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity - Softcover

Herdt, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226327493 ISBN 13: 9780226327495

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

In the first systematic documentation of New Guinea rituals of manhood, Gilbert Herdt places the homosexual customs of the Sambia in their ecological and ideological contexts while exploring what they mean to the individuals who practice them. Raising a host of issues concerning gender identity, hostility between the sexes, and the relationships between myth, culture, and personal experience, Herdt provides a vivid and convincing portrait of how Sambia men experience their sexual development.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This unique study of boy-inseminating rituals among the Sambia of New Guinea challenges our deepest assumptions about the role of culture in understanding homosexuality and gender-identity development.

About the Author:

Gilbert Herdt is professor and director of the Graduate Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and director emeritus of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. His books include Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0226327493
• ISBN 13: 9780226327495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402