04200nam 22007214a 450 991096065990332120250401200550.09786610424139978128042413712804241339780803204379080320437X(CKB)1000000000449134(EBL)3039381(SSID)ssj0000183850(PQKBManifestationID)11170431(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183850(PQKBWorkID)10200483(PQKB)10760893(MiAaPQ)EBC3039381(OCoLC)56620819(MdBmJHUP)muse11723(Au-PeEL)EBL3039381(CaPaEBR)ebr10411001(CaONFJC)MIL42413(BIP)9461081(EXLCZ)99100000000044913420040204d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIrregular connections a history of anthropology and sexuality /Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons1st ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20041 online resource (437 p.)Critical studies in the history of anthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.9780803280366 080328036X 9780803229532 0803229534 Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-384) and index.Introduction -- Three images of primitive sexuality and the definition of species -- Sex and the refuge for destitute truth -- Matriarchy, marriage by capture, and other fantasies -- The reconstruction of "primitive sexuality" at the Fin de Siecle -- "Old Africa hands" -- Malinowski as "reluctant sexologist" -- Margaret Mead, the future of language, and lost opportunities -- The "silence" -- Sex in contemporary anthropology -- Conclusions and unfinished business.Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital relations, and hierarchies of gender, class, and race.   Because sex is the most private of activities and often carries a high emotional charge, it is peculiarly difficult to investigate. At times, such as the late 1920s and the last decade of the twentieth century, sexuality has been a central concern of anthropologists and focal in their theoretical formulations. At other times the study of sexuality has been marginalized. The anthropology of sex has sometimes been one of the main faces that anthropology presented to the public, often causing resentment within the discipline.   Irregular Connections discusses several individuals who have played a significant role in the anthropological study of sexuality, including Sir Richard Burton, Havelock Ellis, Edward Westermarck, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, George Devereux, Robert Levy, Gilbert Herdt, Stephen O. Murray, and Esther Newton. Synthesizing a wealth of information from different anthropological traditions, the authors offer a seamless history of the anthropology of sex as it has been practiced and conceptualized in North America and Great Britain.Critical studies in the history of anthropology.Sex customsHistoryAnthropologyHistoryAnthropologistsAttitudesSex customsHistory.AnthropologyHistory.AnthropologistsAttitudes.306.7/09Lyons Andrew P(Andrew Paul)1801312Lyons Harriet1801313MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960659903321Irregular connections4346464UNINA