Sambia Sexual Culture : Essays from the Field (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

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Summary: Repetitious recycling of some important work
Review: Herdt has spilled millions of word about pederastic initiation among the people he has called the Sambia. Anyone but a hardcore, masochistic anthropologist would do better to read his Holt book _The Sambia_ than this minimally edited, highly repetitious recycling of some of his journal articles. The introduction is particularly opaque and unhelpful. Herdt is a recovering Freudian who takes a thousand words to say what could be said clearly in a sentence.