Description: This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings.
Review Quotes: "Must reading for serious investigators of sex and gender. . . . This documentation of several societies where homosexual relations among men are both universal and obligatory challenges a number of medical, biological, and psychological theories of homosexuality."--Barry D. Adam, "American Journal of Sociology