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

Contributor(s):

Robertson, Jennifer, 1953- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 6.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005Description: ix, 310 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0631232990
9780631232995
0631233008
9780631233008

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.766 22

LOC classification:

GN484.35 .S36 2005

Contents:

Sexualizing anthropology's fields / Jennifer Robertson -- Anthropology rediscovers sexuality: a theoretical comment / Carole S. Vance -- Biological determinism and homosexuality / Bonnie Spanier -- Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities / Barbara L. Voss -- No / Don Kulick -- Resources for lesbian ethnographic research in the Lavender Archives / Alisa Klinger -- Erotic anthropology: 'ritualized homosexuality' in Melanesia and beyond / Deborah A. Elliston -- Gender, genetics, and generation: reformulating biology in lesbian kinship / Corinne P. Hayden -- Transsexualism: reflections on the persistence of gender and the mutability of sex / Judith Shapiro -- Problems encountered in writing the history of sexuality: sources, theory, and interpretation / Estelle B. Freedman and John D'Emilio -- Choosing the sexual orientation of children / Edward Stein -- Yoshiya Nobuko: out and outspoken in practice and prose / Jennifer Robertson -- Outing as performance, outing as resistance: a queer reading of Austrian (homo)sexualities / Matti Bunzel -- Tombois in West Sumatra: constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood -- Freeing South Africa: the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto / Donald L. Donham -- Gay organizations, NGOs, and the globalization of sexual identity: the case of Bolivia / Timothy Wright -- --

Introduction : sexualizing anthropology's fields / Jennifer Robertson -- 1. Anthropology rediscovers sexuality : a theoretical comment / Carole S. Vance -- 2. Biological determinism and homosexuality / Bonnie Spanier -- 3. Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities / Barbara L. Voss -- 4. No / Don Kulick -- 5. Resources for lesbian ethnographic research in the lavender archives / Alisa Klinger -- 6. Erotic anthropology : 'ritualized homosexuality' in Melanesia and beyond / Deborah A. Elliston -- 7. Gender, genetics, and generation : reformulating biology in lesbian kinship / Corinne P. Hayden -- 8. Transsexualism : reflections on the persistence of gender and the mutability of sex / Judith Shapiro -- 9. Problems encountered in writing the history of sexuality : sources, theory and interpretation / Estelle B. Freedman and John D'Emilio -- 10. Choosing the sexual orientation of children / Edward Stein -- 11. Yoshiya Nobuko : out and outspoken in practice and prose / Jennifer Robertson -- 12. Outing as performance/outing as resistance : a queer reading of Austrian (homo)sexualities / Matti Bunzl -- 13. Tombois in West Sumatra : constructing masculinity and erotic desire / Evelyn Blackwood -- 14. Freeing South Africa : the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto / Donald L. Donham -- 15. Gay organizations, NGOs, and the globalization of sexual identity : the case of Bolivia / Timothy Wright.

Summary: Demonstrating the centrality of sex, gender & sexuality to theories of human behaviours & practices, this text offers a wide variety of readings & covers topics including biotechnology & bioethics, health & illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, & kinship.Review: "By drawing on the multiple perspectives of anthropology, this collection moves beyond other lesbian and gay studies readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities and presenting the lives of a range of individuals across cultural and temporal domains." "Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology), and includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and policy-making."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demonstrating the centrality of sex, gender & sexuality to theories of human behaviours & practices, this text offers a wide variety of readings & covers topics including biotechnology & bioethics, health & illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, & kinship.

"By drawing on the multiple perspectives of anthropology, this collection moves beyond other lesbian and gay studies readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities and presenting the lives of a range of individuals across cultural and temporal domains." "Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology), and includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and policy-making."--BOOK JACKET.

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