Women As Unseen Characters : Male Ritual in Papua New Guinea.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note for Readers -- Introduction: The Presence of Women in New Guinea Secret Male Rituals: From Ritual Space to Ritual Process -- 1. Sambia Women's Positionality and Men's Rituals -- 2. Embodiments of Detachment: Engendering Agency in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea -- 3. When Women Enter the Picture: Looking at Anga Initiations from the Mothers' Angle -- 4. Ujawe: The Ritual Transformation of Sons and Mothers -- 5. The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual of Porgera and Paiela -- 6. Cults, Closures, Collaborations -- 7. The Variability of Women's "Involvement" in Anga Male Initiations -- 8. Of Human and Spirit Women: From Mother to Seductress to Second Wife -- 9. Relating to Women: Female Presence in Melanesian "Male Cults -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

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