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UNINA9910814354803321 |
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Titolo |
Same-sex cultures and sexualities : an anthropological reader / / edited by Jennifer Robertson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786611310684 |
9781281310682 |
1281310689 |
9780470706480 |
0470706481 |
9780470775981 |
047077598X |
9780470776766 |
0470776765 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell readers in anthropology ; ; 6 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RobertsonJennifer <1953-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Homosexuality |
Lesbianism |
Gay and lesbian studies |
Gay men |
Lesbians |
Homosexualitat |
Estudis lèsbics i gais |
Llibres electrònics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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