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Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader

Jennifer Robertson (Editor) 

ISBN: 978-0-631-23299-5

September 2004

Wiley-Blackwell

320 pages

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Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader

Jennifer Robertson

E-Book
978-0-470-77676-6
April 2008
$142.00
Paperback
978-0-631-23300-8
September 2004
$62.95
Hardcover
978-0-631-23299-5
September 2004
$176.95
O-Book
978-0-470-77598-1
April 2008
Available on Wiley Online Library
Description
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.
About the Author
Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has published many articles and book chapters (in several languages) on a wide spectrum of subjects and is the author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Unmaking a Japanese City (1991) and Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (2001 [1998]; Japanese translation 2000). The author’s primary area specialty is Japan however she has also worked in Sri Lanka and is presently working in Israel.
Features

  • 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.
Series
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
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