The Cassowary's Revenge by Donald Tuzin
The Life and Death of Masculinity in a New Guinea Society
An ethnographic account of the Ilahita Arapesh of Papua New Guinea, chronicling the community’s dramatic 1980s renunciation of a secret men’s cult and the ensuing upheaval in gender relations and male identity. Framed by the symbolism of the cassowary and local myth, it traces how Christian conversion and social change led to the public revelation of secrets, the destruction of sacred objects, and the remaking of personhood and cosmology.
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- 1997
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- American
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- English
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