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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.
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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.
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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.
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 007028315X
- ISBN 13 9780070283152
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages382
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GUARDIANS OF THE FLUTES: Idioms of Masculinity: A Study of Ritualized Homosexual Behavior
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McGraw-Hill, 1981, Blacklick, OH
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ISBN 10: 007028315X
ISBN 13: 9780070283152
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated bi-color linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of edge wear. Maps to endpapers. Socio-cultural institutions. Practice of manhood rites in conjuction with ritual homosexualty. Anthropological study of the Sambia tribe (pseudonyn to protect true tribal identity), New Guinea. All boys become initiates of the Warrior group. Supported by an elaborate ideological system, homosexuality is practiced within the group (including ceremonial use of flutes), with heterosexual experiences postponed until marriage. The tribal belief, alien to the world at large, is that it is within the homosexual period that boys become men. Volume based on 2 years (1974 - 1976) of field studyf by Gilbert H. Herdt, Assistant Professor at Stanford Univ at the point of publication, who specializied in gender identify. 382 pgs in 9 chapters followed by 5 appendices. Seller Inventory # 000147
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