ISBN:
9780631232995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (322 p.)
Series Statement:
Wiley-Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities : An Anthropological Reader
DDC:
306.766
Keywords:
Gay and lesbian studies
;
Gay men
;
Homosexuality
;
Lesbianism
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Lesbians
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices.Moves beyond other "lesbian and gay studies" readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures. Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology). Includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and polic
Description / Table of Contents:
Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sexualizing Anthropology's Fields; Part I Anthropology's Sexual Fields; 1 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment; 2 Biological Determinism and Homosexuality; 3 Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities; 4 No; 5 Resources for Lesbian Ethnographic Research in the Lavender Archives; Part II Problems and Propositions; 6 Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship8 Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex; 9 Problems Encountered in Writing the History of Sexuality: Sources, Theory and Interpretation; Part III Ethics, Erotics, and Exercises; 10 Choosing the Sexual Orientation of Children; 11 Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose; 12 Outing as Performance/Outing as Resistance: A Queer Reading of Austrian (Homo)Sexualities; 13 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto15 Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity: The Case of Bolivia; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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