Same-sex cultures and sexualities : an anthropological reader / edited by Jennifer Robertson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robertson, Jennifer, 1953-

Series:

Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 6.

Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality.

Lesbianism.

Gay and lesbian studies.

Gay men.

Lesbians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611310684

9781281310682

1281310689

9780470706480

0470706481

9780470775981

047077598X

9780470776766

0470776765

OCLC:

476172162