Same-sex cultures and sexualities [[electronic resource] ] : an anthropological reader / / edited by Jennifer Robertson

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/6
• Soggetto topico: Homosexuality; Lesbianism; Gay and lesbian studies; Gay men; Lesbians
• Altri autori: RobertsonJennifer Ellen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Same-sex cultures and sexualities
• ISBN: 1-281-31068-9; 9786611310684; 0-470-70648-1; 0-470-77598-X; 0-470-77676-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145252903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; ; 6.