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BATESON, GREGORY: Naven. A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View. Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1981. 2nd edition (first published 1936). [xxiv] + 312 (1, 1 blank) pp. + 28 plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine slightly faded. A fine copy. ''Naven is the name of a peculiar ritual practised by the Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of the New Guinea. The ceremony is performed to congratulate members of the tribe upon the completion of notable accomplishments, among which homicide ranks highest. Ordinarily this tribe insists upon an extreme contrast between the sexes, but in the ''naven'' ceremony, transvestisism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The ''naven'' serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influental works of field anthropology ever written. '' (rear cover). DKK~ 80 NOK~ 85 SEK 100 EUR~ 10 USD~ 17 GBP~ 7 JPY~ 1.740 · PAT8647 · Patrik Andersson Antikvariat, Lund (SE) ·

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