Out in the field : reflections of lesbian and gay anthropolgists /

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Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
Description:xi, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2507315
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Other authors / contributors:Lewin, Ellen.
Leap, William.
ISBN:025202219X (acid-free paper)
0252065182 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
  • Introduction / Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
  • 1. Not Given to Personal Disclosure / Geoffrey Burkhart
  • 2. Rites of Passing / Liz Goodman
  • 3. Cast among Outcastes: Interpreting Sexual Orientation, Racial, and Gender Identity in the Yemen Arab Republic / Delores M. Walters
  • 4. Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork / Walter L. Williams
  • 5. Traveling Woman: Conducting a Fieldwork Project on Gender Variance ad Homosexuality among North American Indians / Sabine Lang
  • 6. Confessions of a Reformed Grant Hustler / Ellen Lewin
  • 7. Studying Gay English: How I Got Here from There / William L. Leap
  • 8. Coming Home: The Journey of a Gay Ethnographer in the Years of the Plague / Ralph Bolton
  • 9. Constructing an Ethnohistory of the Buffalo Lesbian Community: Reflexivity, Dialogue, and Politics / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis
  • 10. Writing Queer Cultures: An Impossible Possibility? / Will Roscoe
  • 11. My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork / Esther Newton
  • 12. Male Homosexuality in Guatemala: Possible Insights and Certain Confusions from Sleeping with the Natives / Stephen O. Murray
  • 13. Out of the Closet and into Print: Sexual Identity in the Textual Field / James Wafer
  • 14. Requiem for a Street Fighter / Kath Weston
  • Afterword / Sue-Ellen Jacobs.