Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note for Readers vii
4. Introduction. The Presence of Women in New Guinea Secret Male Rituals: From Ritual Space to Ritual Process 1
5. 1. Sambia Womens Positionality and Men's Rituals 16
6. 2. Embodiments of Detachment: Engendering Agency in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea 34
7. 3. When Women Enter the Picture: Looking at Anga Initiations from the Mothers' Angle 57
8. 4. Ujawe: The Ritual Transformation of Sons and Mothers 75
9. 5. The Bachelors and Their Spirit Wife: Interpreting the Omatisia Ritual of Porgera and Paiela 98
10. 6. Cults, Closures, Collaborations 120
11. 7. The Variability of Women's Involvement" in Anga Male Initiations 139
12. 8. Of Human and Spirit Women: From Mother to Seductress to Second Wife 154
13. 9. Relating to Women: Female Presence in Melanesian ”Male Cults" 179
14. Notes 201
15. Bibliography 221
16. Contributors 235
17. Index 239
18. Acknowledgments 253