Anthropology and sexual morality : a theoretical investigation
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Anthropology and sexual morality : a theoretical investigation
Berghahn Books, 2006
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Anthropology & sexual morality
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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Bibliography: p. [181]-190
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The history of sexual morality in Ireland has been traditionally associated with repression. In the last two decades, however, repression seems to have given way to its exact opposite. But where did this "repression" originate? And how can we account for this sudden and sweeping transformation in sexual mores? Based on solid ethnographic and historical analysis of sexual morality in rural Ireland, augmented by comparative data from Papua New Guinea, and being informed by from Freud's emblematic concept of repression, the author draws new conclusions that not only apply to the specific case of his Irish material but shed new light on the specific nature of an anthropological approach to the study of human societies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: APPROACHES TO HUMAN SEXUALITY
Chapter 1. Sex in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Chapter 2. Freud and the Repressive Hypothesis
Chapter 3. Foucault: Sex as Culture
PART II: POWER, MEANING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: AN IRISH CASE-STUDY
Chapter 4. Irish Sexual Morality and Family Systems
Chapter 5. Functionalist Dilemmas
Chapter 6. The Peculiarities of Irish Demography
Chapter 7. Imagining Sexuality: History as a Cognitive System
Chapter 8. Coercion and Meaning
Chapter 9. Disciplinary Regimes in the History of Irish Sexuality
PART III: ANTHROPOLOGICAL REMARKS
Chapter 10. Clarifying the Culture Concept
Chapter 11. Intersubjectivity Revisited
Chapter 12. Subjectification and Interpretation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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