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Manhood in the Marking:

Cultural Concepts of Masculinity
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Yale University Press, 1990 - Social Science - 258 pages
Offers a cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, and looks at two androgynous cultures that are exceptions to the manhood archetype
  

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I found this book to be extremely fascinating. I am not an anthropologist or even a psychologist, but the cultural examples in this book were extremely interesting. It gives examples of what is ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 The Manhood Puzzle
9
CircumMediterranean
30
Truk Island
56
Mehinaku
78
Other Men Other Manhoods
99
Samburu
123
Sambia
146
East and South Asia
169
Tahiti and Semai
201
10 Conclusions
220
Bibliography
233
Index
249
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David D. Gilmore is assistant professor of anthropology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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