Anthropological explorations in queer theory / / by Mark Graham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910545198903321
• Autore: Graham Mark <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4094-7388-0; 1-315-56728-8; 1-317-18048-8; 1-4094-5067-8
• Edizione: [1 ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Collana: Queer Interventions
• Disciplina: 306.7601
• Soggetti: Queer theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 Things; 2 Sexonomics; 3 Smells; 4 Species; 5 Intersections; 6 Failures; 7 Explications; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anthropological Explorations in Queer Theory offers a wide ranging fusion of queer theory with anthropological theory, shifting away from the discussion of gender categories and identities that have often constituted a central concern of queer theory and instead exploring the queer elements of contexts in which they are not normally apparent. Engaging with a number of apparently 'non-sexual' topics, including embodiment and fieldwork, regimes of value, gifts and commodities, diversity discourses, biological essentialisms, intersectionality, the philosophy of Bergson and Deleuze, and the repres