This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and thei

With reference to Brahmapur, Orissa, India.

The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purit

This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and thei

Despite the great interest in &"plain&" groups in recent years, comparatively little has been written about women and the particular role they play in preservin