Simbari people

The Simbari people (also known as the Simbari Anga, called Sambia by Herdt) are a mountain-dwelling, hunting and horticultural tribal people who inhabit the fringes of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, and are extensively described by the American anthropologist Gilbert Herdt. The Sambia – a pseudonym created by Herdt himself – are known by cultural anthropologists for their acts of "ritualised homosexuality" and semen ingestion practices with pubescent boys. In his studies of the Simbari, Herdt describes the people in light of their sexual culture and how their practices shape the masculinity of adolescent Simbari boys.

The Simbari people speak Simbari (called Sambia by Herdt),^: 37 a Trans-New Guinea language belonging to the Angan branch.