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Also: Batak (Indonesia)
Eder (1977)[1] examined is the disappearance of
the umbay ceremony and related practices among the
Batak of Palawan Island in the Philippines, a small Negrito society. The ceremony represents a rite of
passage for boys and girls (aged about 14) from childhood to adolescence,
involving a mock sexual intercourse scene between initiate and an already
initiated partner of the opposite sex.
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin:
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology
Last
revised: Sept 2004
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