Same-sex cultures and sexualities : an anthropological reader /

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Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Description:ix, 310 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 6
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5360241
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Other authors / contributors:Robertson, Jennifer, 1953-
ISBN:0631232990 (cloth : alk. paper)
0631233008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Jennifer Robertson, Sexualizing anthropology's fields
  • Part 1. 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 2. Problems and Propositions
  • 6. "Erotic anthropology: 'ritualized homosexuality' in Melanesia and beyond."
  • 7. "Gender, genetics, and generation: reformulating biology in lesbian kinship."
  • 8. "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 3. 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."
  • 14. "Freeing South Africa: the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto."
  • 15. "Gay organizations, NGOs, and the globalization of sexual identity: the case of Bolivia."