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Introduction: Feminist Anthropology and Female Initiation in Melanesia

Nancy C. Lutkehaus

 

Puberty Rites, Women's Naven, and Initiation: Women's Rituals of Transition in Abelam and Iatmul Culture

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin

 

In the Shadow of the Tambaran: Female Initiation among the Ndu of the Sepik Basin

Paul B. Roscoe

 

Achieving Womanhood and the Achievements of Women in Murik Society: Cult Initiation, Gender Complementarity, and the Prestige of Women

Kathleen Barlow

 

Transforming Women: Being and Becoming in an Island Melanesian Society

Deane Fergie

 

Mythic Images and Objects of Myth in Rauto Female Puberty Ritual

Thomas Muschio

 

The Washed and the Unwashed: Women's Life-Cycle Rituals among the Saniyo-Hiyowe of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Patricia K. Townsend

 

Gender Metaphors: Female Rituals as Cultural Models in Manam

Nancy C. Lutkehaus

 

Marriage as the Model for a New Initiation Ritual

Lorraine Sexton

 

"Initiation" in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Paul B. Roscoe