Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays From the Field

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  August, 2004  by James Giles

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Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays From the Field. By Gilbert Herdt. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1999, 327 pp., $20.00.

One culture whose sexual practices have received much attention in both the social anthropological and sexological literature is the Sambia tribe of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The fieldwork on the Sambia sexual culture was carried out by Herdt in the 1970s and later presented by him in a series of essays. These essays, in slightly revised form and with a new introduction, have at last been brought together in this volume. Despite the fact that the ...