cover image Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity

Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity

Gilbert H. Herdt. Columbia University Press, $22 (382pp) ISBN 978-0-231-06631-0

Herdt, a Stanford anthropology professor, lived with the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea for two years, a tribe noted for its practice of forcing boys to engage in homosexuality. The author ""makes interesting observations about gender identity, symbolism and perception,'' PW commented. (December)