Same-sex cultures and sexualities : an anthropological reader /
This reader aspires to channel the comparative anthropological and historical study of same-sex cultures and sexualities into a full-spectrum anthropological mainstream. It also aims to demonstrate the centrality of the complicated relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality to the development and re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
| Published: |
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Publishing,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell readers in anthropology ;
6. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This reader aspires to channel the comparative anthropological and historical study of same-sex cultures and sexualities into a full-spectrum anthropological mainstream. It also aims to demonstrate the centrality of the complicated relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality to the development and refinement of anthropological theories in general. As the constituent essays make absolutely clear, studies of sexuality, in this case same-sex sexualities, are not limited to, and are much more than, studies by and for self-identified lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, or transsexual scholars. This volume is advocating a kind of "cultural physics" in which sexuality operates as a vector that occasions multiple interactions among groups of humans, and that transmits through manifold media different kinds of energy among humans. Kinship, for example, is one of the variety of effects and outcomes generated. Collectively, these essays represent epistemological and research topoi that have emerged as especially salient over the past decade to the development of an anthropology of same-sex sexuality. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes notes and bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470775981 047077598X 9780470776766 0470776765 9780631233008 0631233008 1281310689 9781281310682 9786611310684 6611310681 0470706481 9780470706480 |