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Sexualities in anthropology : a reader

edited by Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons

(Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology, 15)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

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  • : pbk

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Summary: This thought-provoking new collection, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader offers insights into the diversity of human social beliefs and practices relating to sexuality in different times and in different cultures around the world. Substantial editorial introductions set each Part in context of the field, providing readers helpful background and explanatory notes. Presents a comprehensive collection of key historical and current readings in the social anthropology of sexuality Includes literature on both heterosexualities and same-sex sexualities Explores the key works and major debates of prominent scholars in the field, such as Mead, Malinowski, Newton , Herdt, and others Introduces readers to major theoretical developments ("essentialist" and "constructionist" positions)

Includes bibliographies and index

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内容説明

This thought-provoking new collection, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader offers insights into the diversity of human social beliefs and practices relating to sexuality in different times and in different cultures around the world. Substantial editorial introductions set each Part in context of the field, providing readers helpful background and explanatory notes. Presents a comprehensive collection of key historical and current readings in the social anthropology of sexuality Includes literature on both heterosexualities and same-sex sexualities Explores the key works and major debates of prominent scholars in the field, such as Mead, Malinowski, Newton, Herdt, and others Introduces readers to major theoretical developments ("essentialist" and "constructionist" positions)

目次

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Problems in Writing About Sex in Anthropology. 1 The Bubble, the Burn, and the Simmer: Locating Sexuality in Social Science (Kath Weston). Part I Sex, Race and Gender in Anthropological History. 2 Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Poststructuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" (Zine Magubane). Part II Primitive Promiscuity and Matriarchal Theory ("Oversexed Savages"). 3 Origins of the Family (Friedrich Engels). Part III Against Primitive Promiscuity (Fear of Sex). 4 The Reconstruction of "Primitive Sexuality" at the Fin de Siecle (Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons). 5 The Sexual Instinct in Savages (Havelock Ellis). 6 The Mystic Rose: Selections (Ernest Crawley). Part IV Early Work on Homosexualities. 7 Pederasty (Richard Burton). 8 Homosexual Love (Edward Westermarck). 9 Hermaphrodism Among Gods and Mortals (Edward Carpenter). 10 The Zuni La'mana (Elsie Clews Parsons). Part V Heterosexual Freedoms (Elsewhere). 11 Prenuptial Intercourse Between the Sexes (Bronislaw Malinowski). 12 Formal Sex Relations (Margaret Mead). 13 Premarital Pregnancy and Native Opinion: A Note on Social Change (Isaac Schapera). Part VI Sexual Repression: A Test Case. 14 Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community (John C. Messenger). Part VII Virgin Birth. 15 Ignorance of Physiological Paternity (Bronislaw Malinowski). 16 Tradition, Experience, and Belief (Ashley Montagu). 17 Virgin Birth (Edmund Leach). Part VIII The Attack on Margaret Mead. 18 Sex and Hoax in Samoa: Was Margaret Mead Misled or Did She Mislead on Samoa? (Derek Freeman). 19 Sexual Morality in Samoa and Its Historical Transformations (Penelope Schoeffel). 20 Virginity and the History of Sex in Samoa (Paul Shankman). Part IX Genital Cutting. 21 Genital Cutting: The Past and Present of a Polythetic Category (Harriet D. Lyons). Part X Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender. 22 Role Models (Esther Newton). 23 Notes and Queries on Sexual Excitement in Sambia Culture (Gilbert Herdt). 24 Causing a Commotion: Public Scandal as Resistance Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Don Kulick). 25 Between Religion and Desire: Being Muslim and Gay in Indonesia (Tom Boellstorff). 26 The Semiotics of Transgendered Sexual Identity in the Thai Print Media: Imagery and Discourse of the Sexual Other (Megan Sinnott). 27 The Categories Themselves (David Valentine). Part XI Heterosexuality Today. 28 A Good Spouse Is Hard to Find: Marriage, Spouse Exchange, and Infatuation Among the Copper Inuit (Pamela R. Stern and Richard G. Condon). 29 Love and the Risk of HIV: Courtship, Marriage, & Infi delity in Southeastern Nigeria (Daniel Jordan Smith). 30 Beyond Pain, Towards Pleasure in the Study of Sexuality in Africa (Rachel Spronk). Index.

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