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Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology)

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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, kinship, development, and policymaking.

Author(s): Jennifer Robertson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 322

Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Sexualizing Anthropology’s Fields......Page 13
Part I Anthropology’s Sexual Fields......Page 25
1 Anthropology Rediscovers Sexuality: A Theoretical Comment......Page 27
2 Biological Determinism and Homosexuality......Page 45
3 Feminisms, Queer Theories, and the Archaeological Study of Past Sexualities......Page 60
4 No......Page 72
5 Resources for Lesbian Ethnographic Research in the Lavender Archives......Page 85
Part II Problems and Propositions......Page 101
6 Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized Homosexuality" in Melanesia and Beyond......Page 103
7 Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship......Page 128
8 Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex......Page 150
9 Problems Encountered in Writing the History of Sexuality: Sources, Theory and Interpretation......Page 174
Part III Ethics, Erotics, and Exercises......Page 187
10 Choosing the Sexual Orientation of Children......Page 189
11 Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose......Page 208
12 Outing as Performance/Outing as Resistance: A Queer Reading of Austrian (Homo)Sexualities......Page 224
13 Tombois in West Sumatra: Constructing Masculinity and Erotic Desire......Page 244
14 Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto......Page 273
15 Gay Organizations, NGOs, and the Globalization of Sexual Identity: The Case of Bolivia......Page 291
Index......Page 307