Same-sex cultures and sexualities : an anthropological reader / / edited by Jennifer Robertson
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| Titolo: |
Same-sex cultures and sexualities : an anthropological reader / / edited by Jennifer Robertson
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishing, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.76/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality |
| Lesbianism | |
| Gay and lesbian studies | |
| Gay men | |
| Lesbians | |
| Homosexualitat | |
| Estudis lèsbics i gais | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Llibres electrònics |
| Altri autori: |
RobertsonJennifer <1953->
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| 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: | 9786611310684 |
| 9781281310682 | |
| 1281310689 | |
| 9780470706480 | |
| 0470706481 | |
| 9780470775981 | |
| 047077598X | |
| 9780470776766 | |
| 0470776765 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814354803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Blackwell readers in anthropology ; ; 6.