Best customs & traditions books according to redditors
We found 85 Reddit comments discussing the best customs & traditions books. We ranked the 38 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 85 Reddit comments discussing the best customs & traditions books. We ranked the 38 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Well this was uploaded in 2010, does it prove anything?
http://youtu.be/zgT4otYh88s
EDIT: This seems to be a plug for this book realeased in 2010 http://www.amazon.co.uk/California-Schemin-Gavin-Bain/dp/1847375553
/u/iDavidRex I found a kindle edition on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Culture-America-Popular-Representations-ebook/dp/B014M481LO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1495234209&sr=8-1
Having just watched the documentary, I felt that it might be the documentary that was fake rather than them, but this is a genuine news broadcast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgT4otYh88s
And this is his book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/California-Schemin-Gavin-Bain/dp/1847375553
Both of those were 3 years ago, and the documentary only just came out. And assuming that it's NOT a hoax, it's a really interesting documentary.
Pretty funny, since there's actually some evidence for the opposite argument: that cooking makes food more nutritious, and it's a major reason humans have been so successful. Raw food is the ultimate Luddite movement, trying to take us back so far we're not even sapient any more.
Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
This is Burning Man
Raw food isn't good for you. You should read Richard Wrangham's book Catching Fire, it goes into detail about how raw food isn't healthy for the human body.
No problem, it is a fascinating topic. I don't know what to suggest, there's way way too many books.
Really top of my head, any anthropologist here will probably crucify me for forgetting something, I would suggest the following :
Some are more or less technical and harder to read without a background, I remember Malinoswki, Descola and Mead to be fairly easy to read. Tristes Tropiques is also very easy, it's like a novel. Mauss, Clastres and Savage Mind can be a bit more "advanced" but they are very readable.
EDIT : Fun fact about something similar to cargo cult. Some tribes, don't remember if it's in Africa or Oceania, value foreign objects as possessing supernatural powers. As such, they cover their shields (which are absolutely amazing) with stickers, such as beer brands. The anthropoligist that told me this said that he tried to tell them that they are ruining the beautiful shield and they just thought he was an idiot, the shield looked much nicer with the stickers.
Wikipedia on Marcel Mauss and 'The Gift':
> Marcel Mauss (10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist. The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss' academic work traversed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology.
> Today, he is perhaps better recognised for his influence on the latter discipline; particularly with respect to his analyses of topics such as magic, sacrifice and gift exchange in different cultures around the world. Mauss had a significant influence upon the founder of structural anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss. His most famous book is The Gift (1923).
> The book is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange. [In it, Mauss] builds a case for a foundation to human society based on collective (vs. individual) exchange practices. In so doing, he refutes the English tradition of liberal thought, such as utilitarianism, as distortions of human exchange practices. He concludes by speculating that social welfare programs may be recovering some aspects of the morality of the gift within modern market economies.
> The Gift has been very influential in anthropology, where there is a large field of study devoted to reciprocity and exchange. It has also influenced philosophers, artists and political activists, including Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida and more recently the work of David Graeber.
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Well he actually goes a step further, a good deal of Graeber's anthropological work goes towards examining alternatives to capitalist and state capitalist economic arrangements. Gift economies, markets, etc.
His anthropological work shows that there are different origins for currency but I think you might be interested in stuff like "Towards An Anthropological Theory of Value"
>This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in current social theory, which have become critical at the present moment of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are in a sense necessarily revolutionary projects: He attempts to synthesize the best insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss, arguing that these figures represent two extreme, but ultimately complementary, possibilities in the shape such a project might take. Graeber breathes new life into the classic anthropological texts on exchange, value, and economy. He rethinks the cases of Iroquois wampum, Pacific kula exchanges, and the Kwakiutl potlatch within the flow of world historical processes, and recasts value as a model of human meaning-making, which far exceeds rationalist/reductive economist paradigms.
Or some of the work done by his forebears like Mauss' "The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies"
>Since its first publication in English in 1954, The Gift, Marcel Mauss's groundbreaking study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure, has been acclaimed as a classic among anthropology texts.
>A brilliant example of the comparative method, ?The Gift? presents the first systematic study of the custom—widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia—of exchanging gifts. The gift is a perfect example of what Mauss calls a total social phenomenon, since it involves legal, economic, moral, religious, aesthetic, and other dimensions. He sees the gift exchange as related to individuals and groups as much as to the objects themselves, and his analysis calls into question the social conventions and economic systems that had been taken for granted for so many years. In a modern translation, introduced by distinguished anthropologist Mary Douglas, ?The Gift ?is essential reading for students of social anthropology and sociology.
> over think things and think once I've reached a certain age I'm no longer allowed to go out and have fun anymore.
Take this thought out into the backyard, strap 14 lbs of TNT to it, light the fuse, and take safe cover. You should be able to be 50 or 70 and do whatever you want as long as you are not hurting other people. Bars are a "third place" that have served an important social function for people for hundreds of years. In UK, they are called pubs and you can see oldsters there.
My friend recommended me this one.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VQLF020/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
I'm just gonna leave a link to Marcel Mauss's book about gift-exchange (though you can read the wikipedia entry which will totally give you the gist of it). I know a lot of anthropology can seem pretty effete, but despite the phrase "archaic societies" in the title, even in today's society we see a lot of social ties acted out by acts of reciprocal exchange in the form of gift-giving. I've noticed this in particular with women in tight-knit communities. I used to think it was kind of dumb to give gifts because you have to, or for specific occasions... I'd rather opportunistically buy a gift that fits the recipient as an individual. But now, I think these little rituals do help us bond with one another. The women that I see regularly exchanging seemingly meaningless gifts with my mom (and sometimes me) are the ones who come through if she (or I) gets sick, or moves, or needs help with something serious.
Also highly recommended: This is Burning Man by Brian Doherty.
Fantastic detailed history of the origins & early days, from the Suicide Club, Cacophany Society, then Burning Man.
https://www.amazon.com/This-Burning-Man-American-Underground/dp/1932100865/ref=la_B001JP4YV6_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521678685&sr=1-3
Another great is "The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies" By Marcel Mauss. This book changed my life. It opened the door to a whole new stream of thought dealing with 'ecomonies' or relationships people create and the obligation to reciprocity that bind people not only to other people to create culture but also binds people to objects within a time and space.
http://www.amazon.com/Gift-Reason-Exchange-Archaic-Societies/dp/039332043X#_
Aaron Fisher's The Way of Tea is destined to be a classic.
John Blofeld's The Chinese Art of Tea is a classic.
You might be interested in what Ray Oldenburg has to say. He is a sociologist who has a lot of negative things to say about suburbia. If you ditch your commute, not only will you be healthier, Oldenburg will bet that you are happier too.
There are many bad books on tea. I recently have been going through my county library's collection and not finding much that I think improves on these two oldies:
Tea Lover's Treasury, by James Norwood Pratt. There are newer editions available.
Chinese Art of Tea, John Blofeld.
There are newer, glitzier books available but many are full of nonsense, and some of the more popular ones strike me as thinly-disguised marketing materials for the author's tea businesses.
Except that phaseolids contain lectins as well as other indigestible and potentially harmful compounds.
While cooking doesn't necessarily take indigestible foods and make them digestible, it does, as you mentioned, aid in digestion, allowing for less energy to be consumed in the digestive process so, the caloric yield of eating cooked foods would be higher.
Check out Catching Fire and Beans
Well, then I absolutely recommend starting to build your library with some of the best works. There is something about turning off all the screens and sitting quietly with only your Self, and the words. You can highlight, mark up, dog-ear etc your own book. Work with it, love it, and begin to live it.
I like to keep a book handy near my bed side; quietly reading a bit before bed each night to a night light. This quiet time right before bed helps the ideas sink more deeply into the subconscious mind.
May I Also Suggest:
Words to the Wise by Manly P Hall.
Self Unfoldment by Manly P Hall
These are a little rarer as hall's books are often out of print. I have found them to be incredibly helpful to building a good foundation to grow from. Study these three books (with the Kybalion) and you will have a comprehensive introduction to occult philosophy, and be ready to venture in most directions with an understanding of the Principles involved.
Have you read 'Catching Fire'? It's a book about cooking and its role in human evolution. I've found it an interesting, informative and fun read.
About plants being not very hard to eat... well, most grains are quite coarse in their natural state, but if you are able to cook them into porridge, you can get a lot of protein and fats out of them.
Humans did not eat exclusively raw food in nature. The consumption of cooked food makes the food 'easier' for our bodies to process. While the total nutritional volume is decreased slightly, this ease of processing results in a higher bio-availability of nutrients than by eating raw food. Put simply, we get more nutrients out of cooked food than raw food, even though raw food has more nutrients, because it is easier for our bodies to process.
This reduced the amount of time our ancestors had to spend foraging and grazing considerably. Our nearest ape cousins spend upwards of eight hours per day consuming food, because the lower bioavailibility of raw food means they have to keep eating and eating and eating to meet their bodies needs. Our ancestors using fire and cooking foods allowed us to reduce that time to between one and two hours, allowing us more time as a species for other pursuits. These include tool making, social interaction, the development of more complex languages, culture, trade and so on. There's a book you may want to read on the matter:
https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/1469298708
Here is a link to a source on Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Rose-Mutilation-Prevention-Publications/dp/1873194951
Here is information on Fatima Siad, a "Top Model" who is a vocal opponent of FGM in her homeland
http://www.dosomething.org/blog/celebsgonegood/top-model-takes-a-stand-against-fgm
Okay here we go:
Indians of the Pacific Northwest: From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day. General information!
Looking At Indian Art Of The Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart, which has a lot of the common symbolism you see in many coastal tribes. Many other useful books by this woman. Here's her Amazon page. Some of her books are kinda pricy but there are other affordable ones out there!
Indian Relics Of The Pacific Northwest by SG Seaman. Some visual information on tools used by indigenous tribes, dry but good info.
Art In The Life of the Northwest Coast Indian by Erna Gunther. This one is a little more in depth!
Totem poles were a distinct and important part of many NW coast tribes. Lots of books out there on their function and purpose, definitely something to research.
The potlatch was another extremely important aspect of PNW indigenous lives. Some info here and here, but also lots of research papers for free on the internet.
Salmon was a vital food resource for hundreds of tribes. They fished along the Columbia, Pacific, and other major waterways. Here and here is more info.
Indians of the North Pacific Coast by Tom McFeat.
Mythology is a must! There might be some online collections but here and here are a couple books.
Tales of the Northwest is a classic!
Please check out the Vancouver Museum of Anthropology website. They have TONS of information on a variety of indigenous tribes, with a focus on NW coastal tribes. If you ever have a reason to go to Vancouver you MUST visit this beautiful, beautiful museum.
The Seattle Public Library (also a must visit, just a gorgeous library) has an extensive local history section.
Once you've read a couple books and have a better understanding of what you want to study, it's actually much easier to pick a certain tribe or area and find more information that way. Tons and tons of books out there on the Haida, Kwakiutl, Salish, Chinook, etc. I would highly recommend contacting people who study or write about these tribes! For the most part professors and authors love to talk about their work, or can direct you to other resources.
My final recommendation is if you want to write a fictional book about a PNW tribe, please read some fiction out there already written by indigenous Americans! This will help you more intimately understand the emotion and history that is part of these ancient cultures.
Anyway, don't feel too bogged down by all the info. Pick a subject or two you want to learn about and do some internet research before you buy a book. I don't know what kind of access your library might have, but maybe you could rent a few books through them.
Lastly, if you ever have a chance to come visit the PNW, please do! It is absolutely beautiful out here and unlike many parts of the world. It's cool and rainy so we have an extraordinary abundance of wild flora. So many must visit places: Vancouver, Mt Hood National Park, Vancouver Island, Olympic National Park, the San Juan Islands, the Columbia Gorge, Gold Coast, Oregon Coast, Haystack Rock, Redwood Forest - look up any of those and you will start to get an understanding of how indigenous peoples connected with their gorgeous natural environment. You may also start to notice that many of the pictures that appear in r/earthporn are from the West Coast. It's damn pretty out here.
Cheers, mate, and hit me up if you ever make it out here!
I don't have much philosophical background, but one thing I'd like to point out is that the moral boundaries we set are absolutely tied to what is practical.
In an ideal world, we would let every living retain all their freedoms; they can do whatever they want and would never have to suffer. No person, cow, or bacterium would be killed. The problem is that certain rights that some living things have will hinder the rights of others. Until very recently in human history, we could not survive without eating other animals ^[source]. We also can't help but kill millions of bacteria left and right regardless of the choices we make, since the normal behavior of bacteria (multiply if you can) basically assumes that a good number of them will die. In fact, we can't really compute which of our actions would kill the least number of bacteria without devoting our own lives to this task.
Practicality manifests itself in more subtle ways in our ever-changing morality as well. Modern medicine would have never gotten a start without rather cruel experiments centuries ago. We now have machines that automate dangerous tasks (defusing bombs) or make them much safer (building tall things). For all of these kinds of tasks, the original way of doing things is now immoral or unethical simply because there is a much better way to do it.
If we somehow lost all our technology tomorrow, would we sit around and do nothing claiming that doing anything is unsafe? No, we would continue to build bridges in the old, dangerous fashion while we search for ways to make it safer in the future. Similarly, once we find a way to adequately teach biology and medical students anatomy without using real animals, dissecting live frogs will probably become unethical rather than standard practice.
If you believe in evolution, you believe that we gradually evolved from organisms similar to bacteria, and that there is no quantum jump at any point in evolution. This means that moral boundaries that we draw are inherently arbitrary and based on practical concerns. This doesn't mean that the lines we do draw are unnecessary or invalid. This just means that we should remind ourselves that everything we do is in context of our own perspective and our own current situation as a society. There is no absolute moral line that will stand the stand the test of time other than that living things should be allowed what they want as much as possible.
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The problem is that if you're a scientifically minded activist, you probably are working in environment where it pays to keep your mouth shut, and not say anything that could offend some regulatory busybody. That said, here's a few rationally minded psychedelic enthusiasts I enjoy reading:
Sam Harris
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life
Brian Doherty
https://www.amazon.com/This-Burning-Man-American-Underground/dp/1932100865
David Nichols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Nichols
Alexander Shulgin, of course:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin
Dirty Pictures is a nice documentary about him:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592855/
Rick Doblin, founder of MAPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Doblin
This book is for a general audience, but check out Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wranghum. His theories are controversial, but plausible in my non-expert opinion.
That is really interesting.
More of that here: http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-at-Pentagon-Frank-Stranges/dp/B0007F4O96
The one review of it does not bode well, though.
The answer you are looking for is either:
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams by David Graeber
or
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
but
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss is the cornerstone of the field and very enjoyable, though shorter than the other two. It may be helpful to have read Mauss in order to understand the previous two mentioned.
>But Homo Erectus we think is the first hominid that controlled fire which is about 1 million to 1.5 million years ago! And then people learned to make fire.
It's on my reading list. https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/1469298708
But here is one example from Ötzi - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/world/europe/bolzano-italy-iceman-south-tyrol-museum-of-archaeology.html
>Then he left, fully provisioned with food, the embers of a fire preserved in maple leaf wrappings inside a birch-bark cylinder
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Well one obvious advantage to eating cooked rather than raw meat is that it vastly reduces parasite issues. Anyways, I haven't read the book but it's here:
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
The ability to harness fire predates humans. Evidence for the control of fire dates back 350,000 - 1.2 million years. I recommend reading the raw and the stolen, or the novel by the same scientist catching fire.
If the control of fire predates humans, then who first harnessed fire? Very likely it was homo erectus. H. erectus lived in small nomadic hunter-gatherer bands. They made, modified, and used stone tools. They may have had proto-languages or gestural languages. They were the first hominin species to migrate out of Africa and into Eurasia. They even made it as far as China, Vietnam, and Indonesia. They were excellent at adapting to new environments.
The evidence for control of fire is limited, and found sporadically throughout H. erectus's territory. This either means they all were able to control fire, but evidence isn't always left behind. Or that only certain populations of H. erectus controlled fire. While trade and transfer of ideas between populations was slow, it wasn't non-existent. Ideas, innovations, discoveries from one group could slowly make their way to another, and another, and another. Perhaps H. erectus knew how to use fire to their advantage, but not all populations knew how to harness it, maintain, or transport it.
Either way by the time humans arrived on scene, 200,000 years ago, the control and use of fire was more likely ubiquitous across human populations. Humans had become adapted to a cooked food diet, and fire was a very likely an important part of our early survival. So while H. erectus may have only used fire when it was available (e.g. through lightning strike), early humans appear to have used, harnessed, and maintained it.
As to how they might have harnessed, transported, or started fire is anyones guess. Their are any number of successful techniques they might have used. For example, you can keep fires going by storing the hot coals and reigniting the fire later with dry fuel. Like so many human discoveries/innovations they were likely by accident, or through trial and error.
Unlike most depictions of early Homo, they didn't all live in caves. Caves just happen to be really good at preserving remains, and artifacts. However, there have been key discoveries that show that early Homo species, including early Humans did not always live in caves, but made structures (like tipis or yurts).
> I'll add I'm also single and without dependents
Given that and your location, if you're also a college student, you're basically at the absolute peak of American sociability.
> I'm not so sure about measurements of very personal relationships throughout history.
You could be right. I've read a study or two that show that circles of friendship are shrinking, and books like Bowling Alone and The Great Good Place discuss the issue, but it could just be wrapped up nostalgia in disguise.
> most Americans are urbanized.
That's true and will, I think, ultimately be good news but keep in mind that "urban" here is a pretty broad term that includes the sparse suburbia a lot of Americans live in.
> Besides turning back the clock, do you think that urbanization will continue to worsen or improve our social opportunities
Everything seems to swing back and forth. Since the industrial revolution, we've swung towards depersonalization to some degree. As we move towards an information economy I think we have the opportunity to swing back some.
> or is that question too broad/undetermined/dauntingly huge to broach?
I don't think any question is too huge to broach, you just need to approach it with similarly huge solutions. In this case, honestly, I think the problem might be solved for us. If the energy crisis gets worse, people will start clustering back together for practical reasons, and I think that will lead to more human contact.
Things like new urbanism are positive signs too, but I don't know if it's a fad that will pass. (At the very least, the real estate bubble popping has put a hurt on it. Orlando is full of empty condos right now.)
A bad economy is actually good news for this too: a new TV and a big house in the suburbs is pretty expensive compared to a smaller home and having friends over for Monopoly.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/California-Schemin-Gavin-Bain/dp/1847375553/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Straight-Outta-Scotland-Betrayal-Industry/dp/1847396526/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1
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why is he selling his book under two titles on amazon with the exact same description
Thanks, Wizard!
That Bushnell book appears hard to get. The library has an English version, but only for in-library use. Used copies are for sale... a little pricey for a book I don't know much about. I'll consider it for sure. Same for Puyana's book. Found only one possible English version copy on Amazon--looks to be bilingual judging by the cover. What do you think, worth the plunge?
Can't find an English version of Yunis's book.
Found La vendedora de rosas on YouTube - thanks! Very much looking forward to seeing it.
I requested Bolivar y yo from the library. That looks fantastic.
I guess my only outstanding question is whether you think Puyana's book is really worth getting. It's 400 pages, but maybe half is in English, half in Spanish
it goes down roughly every labor day weekend. The cost depends on how much you want to make of your journey, but tickets are around $200. You have to consider how you will get to the desert and how you will survive once you're there. radical self-sufficiency is one of the major tenants of the festival. I suggest doing some research before you go. It might look like its all fun and games, but people get critically hurt/die out there. I suggest this book: http://www.amazon.com/This-Burning-Man-American-Underground/dp/1932100865/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310247737&sr=8-1 and their website is inspiring too: http://burningman.org/
Let's not overlook the very first Mutant Vehicle ever on the Playa: Pepper Mouser's Mobile Living Room. I don't think it was on-playa this year, since Pepper is recovering from knee surgery, but it has been a staple from the very beginning. I rode around on it making daiquiris for everyone on-board with a bolted-down blender on burn night 2006...that was the first and only time I met Flash too... Good times. And if you don't know who Flash is, you should go look it up.... Know your history, young burners!
 
 
The Great Good Place was a great read on the topic. The first place I remember reading about the Third Place and was fascinated by the topic.
I'll have to pick up Suburban Nation, as it seems to be an interesting take on the subject.
Relevant piggyback: further reading about the Sambia tribe -- friend of mine just read this for an anthro class; I picked it up and found parts of it really interesting. Perfect if you anyone wants a bit more depth than a Wikipedia page. :)
I suspect it started when a well meaning, fairly intelligent Jewish man named Paul Gottfried tried to explain The Frankfurt School (and specifically Herbert Marcuse, his one time teacher) to William S. Lind. Lind having worked for a republican congressman during the cold war went straight to a place of red-scare paranoia. So where Gottfried wrote things like this about Cultural Marxism:
>"Nothing intrinsically Marxist, that is to say, defines "cultural Marxism," save for the evocation or hope of a postbourgeois society."
>"The mistake of those who see one position segueing into another is to confuse contents with personalities."
Lind (an ideologically drive political pundit) wrote things like this:
>"The next conservatism should unmask multiculturalism and Political Correctness and tell the American people what they really are: cultural Marxism. Its goal remains what Lukacs and Gramsci set in 1919: destroying Western culture and the Christian religion. It has already made vast strides toward that goal. But if the average American found out that Political Correctness is a form of Marxism, different from the Marxism of the Soviet Union but Marxism nonetheless, it would be in trouble. The next conservatism needs to reveal the man behind the curtain - - old Karl Marx himself."
It all came from a place of desperation - they thought conservatism was dying, and this was part of their effort to create a "new conservatism".
The Headman Was a Woman 1st Edition
by Kirk M. Endicott (Author), Karen L. Endicott (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Headman-Was-Woman-Kirk-Endicott/dp/1577665260
and
Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology (3rd Edition) 3rd Edition
by Carol R. Ember (Author), Melvin Ember (Author), Peter N. Peregrine (Author)
and
Ellen Grigsby, Analyzing Politics: An Introduction to Political Science, 6th edition https://www.amazon.com/Cengage-Advantage-Books-Analyzing-Politics/dp/1285465598
please PM me with a price if you have them - I need them ASAP :)
https://www.amazon.com/Headman-Was-Woman-Kirk-Endicott/dp/1577665260
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Lies-Matter-Grievance-Industry-ebook/dp/B01BTJLD6A
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Lies-Matter-Grievance-Industry-ebook/dp/B01BTJLD6A
I suggest you spend a measly $5 to read up and not look so dimwitted.
Gilbert Herdt wrote about the Sambia manhood rituals (read: boys blowing men in Papua New Guinea).
Wikipedia
Buy the book on Amazon