The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Herdt, Gilbert

ISBN 10: 0030689074 / ISBN 13: 9780030689079

Published by Wadsworth Publishing, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030689074
• ISBN 13: 9780030689079
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 11 ounces

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Synopsis

This cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialization studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies, including our own. Sambia boys experience ritualized homosexuality before puberty and do not leave it until marriage, after which homosexual activity is prohibited. The implications are developed cross-culturally and contextualized in gender literature.

About the Author

Gilbert Herdt, Ph.D. is Director and Professor of the Human Sexuality Studies Program and Professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University. He is also the founder of an interdisciplinary research institute-- Institute on Sexuality, Inequality and Health--and Director of National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. He has served on more than 10 international committees or agencies, 8 major national committees and academic committees (NIMH, SSRC), and approximately 15 departmental and university-wide committees at 4 American universities. Dr. Herdt is the recipient of various awards and research grants, including the William Simon Henry Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and a Pre-doctoral Fulbright Scholarship to Australia. Dr. Herdt's research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, International Academy of Sex Research, and Royal Anthropological Institute (UK).