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Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Secrecy and Cultural Reality Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Author: Gilbert Herdt
Secrecy and Cultural Reality explores the ways in which male ritual secrecy is created and inflects collective reality in uncertain sociopolitical conditions and in times of war. Through a series of detailed case studies beginning with the life of Lewis Henry Morgan, followed by studies of male ritual secrecy and the men's house in Melanesia and...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780472067619
ISBN-10: 0472067613
Publication Date: 6/2/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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