The Many faces of homosexuality : anthropological approaches to homosexual behavior / edited by Evelyn Blackwood.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harrington Park Press, c1986.Description: xiii, 217 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0918393205 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Anthropology and homosexual behavior.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7/66 19
LOC classification:
  • GN484.35 .A57 1986b
Online resources:
Contents:
Breaking the mirror: the construction of lesbianism and the anthropological discourse on homosexuality / Evelyn Blackwood -- Age, structure, and sexuality: reflections on the anthropological evidence on homosexual relations / Barry D. Adam -- The hijras of India: cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role / Serena Nanda -- Growing yams and men: an interpretation of Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior / J. Patrick Gray -- Sisters and brothers, lovers and enemies: marriage resistance in southern Kwangtung / Andrea Sankar -- The lesbian community: an anthropological approach / Denyse Lockard -- "Mummies and babies" and friends and lovers in Lesotho / Judith Gay -- Mexican male homosexual interaction in public contexts / Clark L. Taylor -- Male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil / Peter Fry -- Masculinity, femininity, and homosexuality: on the anthropological interpretation of sexual meanings in Brazil / Richard Parker -- Men and not men: male gender-mixing statuses and homosexuality / Charles Callender, Lee M. Kochems -- Why was the berdache ridiculed? / David F. Greenberg -- Persistence and change in the berdache tradition among contemporary Lakota Indians / Walter L. Williams.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction GN 484.35 MAN 1986 1 Available 850177571

"Originally published in 1986 ... under the title Anthropology and homosexual behavior; it has also been published as Journal of homosexuality, volume 11, numbers 3/4, summer 1985."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Breaking the mirror: the construction of lesbianism and the anthropological discourse on homosexuality / Evelyn Blackwood -- Age, structure, and sexuality: reflections on the anthropological evidence on homosexual relations / Barry D. Adam -- The hijras of India: cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role / Serena Nanda -- Growing yams and men: an interpretation of Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior / J. Patrick Gray -- Sisters and brothers, lovers and enemies: marriage resistance in southern Kwangtung / Andrea Sankar -- The lesbian community: an anthropological approach / Denyse Lockard -- "Mummies and babies" and friends and lovers in Lesotho / Judith Gay -- Mexican male homosexual interaction in public contexts / Clark L. Taylor -- Male homosexuality and spirit possession in Brazil / Peter Fry -- Masculinity, femininity, and homosexuality: on the anthropological interpretation of sexual meanings in Brazil / Richard Parker -- Men and not men: male gender-mixing statuses and homosexuality / Charles Callender, Lee M. Kochems -- Why was the berdache ridiculed? / David F. Greenberg -- Persistence and change in the berdache tradition among contemporary Lakota Indians / Walter L. Williams.

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