The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society by Donald Tuzin

Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

The Cassowary's Revenge: The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society

Donald Tuzin

270 pages hardcover 1997

3 editions

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Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling event: the village's men voluntarily destroyed their secret cult that had allowed them to dominate ...

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