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The '''Kaluli'''  are a clan of non-literate<ref name="Language">[http://books.google.com/books?id=ptk9xUamLeUC&lpg=PA296&ots=Sp_Em3t0p-&dq=language%20acquisition%20and%20socialization%3A%20three&lr&pg=PA296#v=onepage&q=language%20acquisition%20and%20socialization:%20three&f=false Language Acquisition and Socialization: Three Developmental Stories and Their Implications],  from Linguistic Anthropology: a Reader, second edition by Duranti</ref> indigenous peoples who live in the rain forests of Great Papuan Plateau in [[Papua New Guinea]]. The Kaluli, who numbered approximately 2000 people in 1987, are the most numerous and well documented by post-contact ethnographers and missionaries among the four language-clans of ''Bosavi kalu'' ("men of Bosavi") that together share a linguistic affiliation within the larger family of Non-Austronesian languages. Their numbers are thought to have declined precipitously following post-contact disease epidemics in the 1940s, and have not rebounded due high infant mortality rates and periodic influenza outbreaks.<ref name="ewc">{{cite book |title=''Encyclopedia of World Cultures'' |editor=David Levinson |publisher=G. K. Hall |year=1996 |volume=2, Oceania}}</ref> The Kaluli are monolingual in their ergative language.<ref name="Language" />


==The Kaluli and boylove==
Among the Kaluli, when a boy reached age 10 or 11, his father would select a man to inseminate him for a period of months to years. In addition, ceremonial hunting lodges would be organized where boys could voluntarily form relationships with men who would have sexual relations with them.<ref>Bauserman, R. (1997). Man-boy sexual relationships in a cross-cultural perspective. In J. Geraci (Ed.), Dares to speak: Historical and contemporary perspectives on boy-love (pp. 120-137). Norfolk, England: Gay Men's Press</ref>

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