Gender Rituals

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Gender Rituals is written by Nancy Lutkehaus and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136657428 (ISBN 10) and 9781136657429 (ISBN 13).

This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender. The contributors argue that female initiation rites express more than cultural notions of femininity, narrow definitions of reproduction, or coming of age rituals - instead they play an important role in other life cycle rituals and in the political and economic organization of society.