| Description |
xiii, 217 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Homosexuality - Anthropological perspectives |
| Notes |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex customs -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Blackwood, Evelyn.
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| LC no. |
85017757 |
| ISBN |
0918393205 paperback |
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