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Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House.(Book Review)

Publication: Oceania
Publication Date: 01-SEP-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House By Gilbert Herdt Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. Pp. xviii + 269. ISBN: 0-472-06761-3 Price: US$26.95 paper

Lewis Henry Morgan's will of 1881 left his fortune and his library to the University of...

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...Rochester, and that university, in 1963, came around to establishing a lecture series in his name. Gilbert Herdt delivered the Morgan Lectures in 1991, his topic 'Secrecy and Society.' These talks comprise the corps of this book. Anyone invited to speak under the name of the famous probably casts about for some connection between the celebrated and what he or she might be able to say. Herdt was fortunate here. He was able to meld his own interests in secret male ritual in Melanesia with Morgan's penchant for intimate men's clubs. Alongside his scholarly works on kinship, Ancient...

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