Sexualities in anthropology : a reader
"Shedding important new light on a subject as old as humanity itself, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader presents a comprehensive collection of historical and current readings in the social anthropology of sexuality. Succinct and revealing excerpts from key figures in the history of anthropo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chhichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2011
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| Series: | Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
15 |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Sex, race and gender in anthropological history
- 2. Primitive promiscuity and matriarchal theory ('oversexed savages')
- 3. Against primitive promiscuity (fear of sex)
- 4. Early work on homosexualities
- 5. Heterosexual freedoms - elsewhere
- 6. Sexual repression - a test case
- 7. Virgin birth
- 8. The attack on Margaret mead
- 9. Genital cutting
- 10. Gay, bisexual, lesbian, transgender
- 11. Heterosexuality today