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

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

Jennifer Robertson (Editor)
$194.64
Publication Date: September 24th, 2004
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
9780631232995
Pages:
320

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.

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