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Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View

By Gregory Bateson

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781503621138
DOI
10.1515/9781503621138
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
80 MB (84011421 bytes)
Pages
368\368
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 13:02:46

Description

"Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the "naven" ceremony, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The "naven" serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written.

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