TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bettelheim,Bruno
TI  - Symbolic wounds: puberty rites and the envious male
AV  - GN483 .B4 1962
U1  - 392 
PY  - 1962///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Collier Books
KW  - Initiation rites
KW  - Puberty rites
KW  - Sex (Psychology)
KW  - Excision (Ethnologie)
KW  - Rites de puberté
KW  - Sexualité (Psychologie)
KW  - Male
KW  - Puberty
N1  - Includes bibliographies
N2  - Bettelheim presents an account of his examination of initiation rites in present-day pre-literate societies and suggests that circumcision and related rituals may be the expression of male fascination with, and jealousy of, female sex apparatus and function.  Broadly evaluating prevailing notions regarding puberty rites, Bettelheim describes ceremonies among different tribes--such as ritual subincision among the Arunta, transvestism among the African Changa, and many other customs--and also relates many myths that accompany the rituals
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/symbolicwoundspu00bett
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL5829700M
ER  -