Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action by Carlo Severi, Michael Houseman

Studies in the History of Religions

Naven or the Other Self: A Relational Approach to Ritual Action

Carlo Severi, Michael Houseman

325 pages hardcover

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In this work, the author propose a novel theory of ritual action founded upon an in-depth study of the wide variety of behaviors that the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea identify as naven: a transvestism rite studied by Gregory Bateson in the 1930s and...

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