KIWAI (
|
|
|
Janssen,
D. F., Growing Up Sexually.
Last revised: Sept 2004
[1] Knauft, B. (1990) The
Question of Ritualized Homosexuality among the Kiwai of
[2] “Sodomy is regularly indulged in […] the boys suffer very much for a long time, and never recover”. Beardmore, E. (1890) The Natives of Mowat, Daudai, New Guinea, J Anthropol Instit Great Britain & Ireland 19:459-66, at p464; Knauft, The question, p205
[3] “The lads are
prostituted by the men for quite a long time and soon become so diseased that
they never recover”; Knauft, The question,
p205-6. See Chalmers, J. (1903) Notes on the Bugilai, British New Guinea, J
Anthropol Instit Great Britain & Ireland 33:108-10, at p109. Also
referred to by Webster, H. (1911) Totem Clans and Secret Associations in
[4] “A boy is not subjected to any actual practice in sexual matters during the moguru”. Kiwai Papuans, p354; Knauft, The question, p205
[5] In mouguru ritual, “[…] [p]art of the ritual has not been related; it is simply unprintable”. Headhunters, p216; Herdt, Ritualized homosexual behavior, p19; Knauft, The question, p206
[6] Williams, Orokolo, p429n2; Knauft, The question, p207