Herdt, Gilbert H. — Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in brown linen cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Dust jacket present, but extensively sunned at spine, chipping along top edge front and rear. Extensive pencil notations left in, unerased, because the copy belonged to the expert historian John Barker, an ethnographer himself of the Maisin of Papua New Guinea. The first extensive survey of ritualized homosexuality in Melanesia, which became "ritualized boy insemination" and put on the map more by the editor, Gilbert Herdt, than anyone, and with contributions by him and by Michael R. Allen, Jan van Baal, Kenneth E. Read, Eric Schwimmer, Laurent Serpenti, Arve Sorum and Shirley Lindenbaum. Map endpapers front and rear showing the ethnographic, ethnological spread of the survey. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii [2], 2-409 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,