ONABASULU MALE HOMOSEXUALITY: Cosmology,Affect and Prescribed Male Homosexual Activity among the Onabasulu of the Great Papuan Plateau

This paper examines what has been called ‘ritualized homosexuality’ in a single ethnic group in the Strickland-Bosavi region of Papua New Guinea. Prescribed male homosexual practices are examined in the context of cosmology and the context of affect in the ‘everyday’ rather than ritual life of the Onabasulu. The perspective is derived from a more general interest in the social construction of the ‘world’ in everyday social life.