At Avatip, a Middle Sepik society in Papua New Guinea, domesticity and male cult ritual are two alternative forms of social action, based respectively on “egalitarian” and “hierarchical” models of the social order. Ritual does not “reflect” social reality but temporarily alters it, and the power of initiated men is the power to bring hierarchy periodically into existence within the circumscribed context of ritual. [Avatip, Sepik, Melanesia, religion, gender, social structure]
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