by their very nature, it is said, the women are at the origin of almost all conflicts and disputes within the community. By their attraction constant for adultery, indifference, well known to the orders which are supposed to the father, husband and brother, and their passion immoderate for gossip and intrigue – in this way and countless others, women are the bane of a peaceful society.

The anthropologist Donald Tuzin describing the ideology of the “cult of man” among the Ilahita Arapesh, in Rituals of Manhood, 1982.

sexual Conflict

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