Women as Unseen Characters

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Note for Readers......Page 8
Introduction: The Presence of Women in New Guinea Secret Male Rituals: From Ritual Space to Ritual Process......Page 12
1. Sambia Women's Positionality and Men's Rituals......Page 27
2. Embodiments of Detachment: Engendering Agency in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea......Page 45
3. When Women Enter the Picture: Looking at Anga Initiations from the Mothers' Angle......Page 68
4. Ujawe: The Ritual Transformation of Sons and Mothers......Page 86
5. The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual of Porgera and Paiela......Page 109
6. Cults, Closures, Collaborations......Page 131
7. The Variability of Women's "Involvement" in Anga Male Initiations......Page 150
8. Of Human and Spirit Women: From Mother to Seductress to Second Wife......Page 165
9. Relating to Women: Female Presence in Melanesian "Male Cults"......Page 190
Notes......Page 212
Bibliography......Page 232
List of Contributors......Page 246
 B......Page 250
 C......Page 252
 F......Page 253
 G......Page 254
 I......Page 255
 L......Page 256
 M......Page 257
 O......Page 258
 R......Page 259
 S......Page 260
 W......Page 262
 Y......Page 263
Acknowledgments......Page 264