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Cultivators in the swampBook 1965 • Serpenti, L. M.
Kimam • Oceania > Melanesia
This book describes salient features of Kimam culture and society, with particular focus on food production, marriage rules, exchange practices, and life-cycles. The emphasis is on how living on a swampy island where much of the land is never complet...The ritual meaning of homosexuality and pedophelia among the Kimam-Papuans of South Irian Jayaessay 1984 • Serpenti, L. M.
Kimam • Oceania > Melanesia
One striking feature of Kimam villages is the ubiquity of periodic ceremonials and magical rites in which older men engage in ritualized sexual intercourse with newly initiated boys and underage girls. This article discusses the relevance of these "r...