| |
| | Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities fellows program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | On the intellectual side, the Sambia pose some very interesting questions for anthropology and, more generally for any student of the human condition, because they challenge one to think about what is possible in the range of diversity of human customs. |
 | | They shed light on the effect of warfare on communal life as well as the effect of warfare on gender roles, particularly what is called sexual antagonism, that is to say, a highly institutionalized hostility between men and women, as well as the implementation of boy-inseminating practices, through the men's secret society. |
 | | Many, many Sambia men were greatly afraid of the strong attachment that developed between a mother and her children. |
| www.vanderbilt.edu /rpw_center/examine.htm (2860 words) |
|