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Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action (Studies in the History of Religions)
Naven or the Other Self A Relational Approach to Ritual Action - Studies in the History of Religions
Author: Michael Houseman, Carlo Severi
This text proposes a theory of ritual action founded on an in-depth study of the wide variety of behaviours that the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea identify as naven, a transvestism rite studied by Gregory Bateson in the 1930s and documented by other anthropologists since. Ritual performance is shown to involve the construction of complex relational...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789004112209
ISBN-10: 9004112200
Publication Date: 6/1/1998
Pages: 325
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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