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Title Sexualities in Anthropology : A Reader / edited by Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons.
Publication Info Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, ©2011.


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Descript xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS IN WRITING ABOUT SEX IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- 1. The bubble, the burn, and the simmer: introduction: 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 Hottentot Venus (Zine Magubane) -- PART II: PRIMITIVE PROMISCUITY AND MATRIARCHAL THEORY ('OVERSEXED SAVAGES') -- 3. Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Frederick Engels) -- PART III: AGAINST PRIMITIVE PROMISCUITY (FEAR OF SEX) -- 4. Irregular Connections - on Westermarck, Ellis and Crawley, "The Reconstruction of Primitive Sexuality at the Fin de Siecle (Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons) -- 5. Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Havelock Ellis) -- 6. The Mystic Rose, Selections (Ernest Crawley) -- PART IV: EARLY WORK ON HOMOSEXUALITIES -- 7. Richard Burton's Arabian Nights: Terminal Essay -- 8. Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas: Selections (Edvard Westermarck) -- 9. Hermaphrodism among gods and mortals (Edward Carpenter) -- 10. The Zuni Lamana (Elsie Clews Parsons) -- PART V: HETEROSEXUAL FREEDOMS - ELSEWHERE -- 11. Extracts from The Sexual Life of Savages (Bronislaw Malinowski) -- 12. Extracts from Coming of Age in Samoa (Margaret Mead) -- 13. Extract from Premarital Pregnancy and Native Opinion (Isaac Schapera) -- PART VI: SEXUAL REPRESSION - A TEST CASE -- 14. Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community (John Messenger) -- PART VII: VIRGIN BIRTH -- 15. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, Extracts (Bronislaw Malinowski) -- 16. Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines (Ashley Montagu) -- 17. Virgin Birth: Extracts (Edmund Leach) -- PART VIII: THE ATTACK ON MARGARET MEAD -- 18. Sex and Hoax in Samoa (Derek Freeman) -- 19. Sexual Morality in Samoa and its Historical Transformations, From A Polymath (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 (Harriet Lyons) -- PART X: GAY, BISEXUAL, LESBIAN, 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 (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 (Daniel Jordan Smith) -- 30. Beyond Pain, Towards Pleasure in the Study of Sexuality in Africa (Rachel Spronk)
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1405190531
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Series Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology ; 15
Subject Sex customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Alt author Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)
Lyons, Harriet.
Weston, Kath, 1958- Bubble, the burn, and the simmer.
Descript xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Contents Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS IN WRITING ABOUT SEX IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- 1. The bubble, the burn, and the simmer: introduction: 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 Hottentot Venus (Zine Magubane) -- PART II: PRIMITIVE PROMISCUITY AND MATRIARCHAL THEORY ('OVERSEXED SAVAGES') -- 3. Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Frederick Engels) -- PART III: AGAINST PRIMITIVE PROMISCUITY (FEAR OF SEX) -- 4. Irregular Connections - on Westermarck, Ellis and Crawley, "The Reconstruction of Primitive Sexuality at the Fin de Siecle (Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons) -- 5. Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Havelock Ellis) -- 6. The Mystic Rose, Selections (Ernest Crawley) -- PART IV: EARLY WORK ON HOMOSEXUALITIES -- 7. Richard Burton's Arabian Nights: Terminal Essay -- 8. Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas: Selections (Edvard Westermarck) -- 9. Hermaphrodism among gods and mortals (Edward Carpenter) -- 10. The Zuni Lamana (Elsie Clews Parsons) -- PART V: HETEROSEXUAL FREEDOMS - ELSEWHERE -- 11. Extracts from The Sexual Life of Savages (Bronislaw Malinowski) -- 12. Extracts from Coming of Age in Samoa (Margaret Mead) -- 13. Extract from Premarital Pregnancy and Native Opinion (Isaac Schapera) -- PART VI: SEXUAL REPRESSION - A TEST CASE -- 14. Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community (John Messenger) -- PART VII: VIRGIN BIRTH -- 15. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, Extracts (Bronislaw Malinowski) -- 16. Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines (Ashley Montagu) -- 17. Virgin Birth: Extracts (Edmund Leach) -- PART VIII: THE ATTACK ON MARGARET MEAD -- 18. Sex and Hoax in Samoa (Derek Freeman) -- 19. Sexual Morality in Samoa and its Historical Transformations, From A Polymath (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 (Harriet Lyons) -- PART X: GAY, BISEXUAL, LESBIAN, 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 (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 (Daniel Jordan Smith) -- 30. Beyond Pain, Towards Pleasure in the Study of Sexuality in Africa (Rachel Spronk)
ISBN 9781405190534
1405190531
Series Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology ; 15
Subject Sex customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Alt author Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)
Lyons, Harriet.
Weston, Kath, 1958- Bubble, the burn, and the simmer.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  GN484.3 .S49 2011  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Sex customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
Descript xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Contents Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS IN WRITING ABOUT SEX IN ANTHROPOLOGY -- 1. The bubble, the burn, and the simmer: introduction: 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 Hottentot Venus (Zine Magubane) -- PART II: PRIMITIVE PROMISCUITY AND MATRIARCHAL THEORY ('OVERSEXED SAVAGES') -- 3. Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Frederick Engels) -- PART III: AGAINST PRIMITIVE PROMISCUITY (FEAR OF SEX) -- 4. Irregular Connections - on Westermarck, Ellis and Crawley, "The Reconstruction of Primitive Sexuality at the Fin de Siecle (Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons) -- 5. Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Havelock Ellis) -- 6. The Mystic Rose, Selections (Ernest Crawley) -- PART IV: EARLY WORK ON HOMOSEXUALITIES -- 7. Richard Burton's Arabian Nights: Terminal Essay -- 8. Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas: Selections (Edvard Westermarck) -- 9. Hermaphrodism among gods and mortals (Edward Carpenter) -- 10. The Zuni Lamana (Elsie Clews Parsons) -- PART V: HETEROSEXUAL FREEDOMS - ELSEWHERE -- 11. Extracts from The Sexual Life of Savages (Bronislaw Malinowski) -- 12. Extracts from Coming of Age in Samoa (Margaret Mead) -- 13. Extract from Premarital Pregnancy and Native Opinion (Isaac Schapera) -- PART VI: SEXUAL REPRESSION - A TEST CASE -- 14. Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community (John Messenger) -- PART VII: VIRGIN BIRTH -- 15. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, Extracts (Bronislaw Malinowski) -- 16. Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines (Ashley Montagu) -- 17. Virgin Birth: Extracts (Edmund Leach) -- PART VIII: THE ATTACK ON MARGARET MEAD -- 18. Sex and Hoax in Samoa (Derek Freeman) -- 19. Sexual Morality in Samoa and its Historical Transformations, From A Polymath (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 (Harriet Lyons) -- PART X: GAY, BISEXUAL, LESBIAN, 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 (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 (Daniel Jordan Smith) -- 30. Beyond Pain, Towards Pleasure in the Study of Sexuality in Africa (Rachel Spronk)
Alt author Lyons, Andrew P. (Andrew Paul)
Lyons, Harriet.
Weston, Kath, 1958- Bubble, the burn, and the simmer.
ISBN 9781405190534
1405190531
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