Secrecy & cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house

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Secrecy & cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house

Gilbert Herdt

University of Michigan Press, c2003

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Secrecy and cultural reality : utopian ideologies of the New Guinea men's house

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-261) and index

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Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies -- Why secrecy? -- Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976 -- Paradox of the men's house -- Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality.

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