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

Bibliographic Data

ID16995482
AuthorsGregory Bateson (corresponding author)
Year1958
Publication date1958-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byNaven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe Drawn from Three Points of View, B G Burton-Bradley, 1969
VenueNaven (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503621138
OpenAlexW4241134570
Open LibraryOL51661547M
ISBN9781503621138
LanguageEN
Citations received618

"Naven" is the name of a peculiar ritual practiced by Iatmul, a head-hunting tribe of New Guinea.Th e 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, tranvestitism and ritual homosexuality are represented. The "naven" serves in this book as a motive around which the author has constructed one of the most influential works of field anthropology ever written

Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · New Caledonia Indigenous Studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Ethnology · Iatmul (Papua New Guinean people) · New guinea · rites and ceremonies

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