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Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea

by Eric Silverman | Feb 4, 2019

Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery (2001) analyzes the relationship between masculinity and motherhood in an Eastern Iatmul village along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It focuses on a metaphorical dialogue between two contrary images of the body, called by...

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