Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. B&W photo section, About 340 pages.
Stock 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.
Title: 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
Edition: 2
ISBN Number: 0804705208
ISBN-13: 9780804705202
Location Published: Stanford Universtiy Press: 1958
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good
Type: Anthropology/Sociology
Categories: Anthropology / Sociology, Africa
Seller ID: 152574
Keywords: buffoonery, buttocks, costume, dance, death, fertility, gay, gender, homocide, homosexual, homosexuality, iatmul, intiitation, magic, melo shell, mortuary, mother, new guinea, obscenities, portrait skull, ritual, sexual, skull, transvestite, transvestitism