The Island of Menstruating Men

The Island of Menstruating Men
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Publisher : Waveland Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9781478609001
ISBN-13 : 1478609001
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Download or read book The Island of Menstruating Men written by Ian Hogbin and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1996-02-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Hogbin belongs to anthropologys heroic age. He was a member of the brilliant between-the-wars generation that included Raymond Firth, Reo Fortune, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Hortense Powdermaker, all of whom pioneered modern field research in the insular South Pacific. The Island of Menstruating Men was a path-breaking exploration of gender in Wogeo when first published. Today it remains an important full-length study of a Melanesian religion, examining it in relation to other facets of culturemythology, beliefs about illness and death, growth and maturity, magic, social structure, and morality. It is an articulate, insightful examination of the meaning of tradition and of the integration of culture. It is also a captivating account of ethnocentrism and the Wogeos justification for it, exemplifying, in miniature, what appears to be one of the great problems of the human species.


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