Gender Rituals

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia, Nancy C. Lutkehaus; Part 2 Defining Women: Gender Images in Female Initiation Rites; Chapter 2 Puberty Rites, Women's Naven, and Initiation, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; Chapter 3 In the Shadow of the Tambaran, Paul B. Roscoe; Part 3 Achieving Womanhood: The Life Cycle as Cultural Performance; Chapter 4 Achieving Womanhood and the Achievements of Women in Murik Society, Kathleen Barlow; Chapter 5 Transforming Women, Deane Fergie; Chapter 6 Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Ritual, Thomas Maschio; Part 4 The Female Body and Life-Cycle Rites as Metaphor; Chapter 7 The Washed and the Unwashed, Patricia K. Townsend; Chapter 8 Gender Metaphors, Nancy C. Lutkehaus; Chapter 9 Marriage as the Model for a New Initiation Ritual, Lorraine Sexton; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 10 “Initiation” in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Paul B. Roscoe;