ASAO
Monograph #21
Women
as
Unseen
Characters:
Male Ritual
in
Papua
New Guinea
Edited
by
Pascale Bonnemere
University
of
Pennsylvania Press
2004
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
Gilbert Herdt
2. Embodiments of Detachment: Engendering Agency in the Highlands of
Papua New Guinea
Sandra C. Bamford
3. When Women Enter the Picture: Looking at Anga Initiations from the
Mothers' Angle
Pascale Bonnemère
4. Ujawe: The Ritual Transformation of Sons and Mothers
Marta A. Rohatynskyj
5. The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual
of Porgera and Paiela
Aletta Biersack
6. Cults, Closures, Collaborations
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
7. The Variability of Women's "Involvement" in Anga Male Initiations
Pierre Lemonnier
8. Of Human and Spirit Women: From Mother to Seductress to Second Wife
Polly Wiessner
9. Relating to Women: Female Presence in Melanesian "Male Cults"
Bruce M. Knauft