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