Crossing the Line Violence, Play, and Drama in Naval Equator Traditions

• Main Author: Bronner, Simon J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam University Press 2006
• Series: Meertens Ethnology Cahiers MEL 2
• Subjects: History; Society & culture: general; Sociology & anthropology; culture and history; vrouwenstudies; anthropologie; women: historical, geographic, persons treatment; cultuur and geschiedenis; anthropology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal hazing in an elaborate ceremony at sea called 'crossing the line' (British-American) and 'Neptunusfeest' (Dutch). Typically enacted upon crossing the equator, the beatings, dunks, sex...