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Anthropology and homosexual behavior / Evelyn Blackwood, editor.

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Blackwood, Evelyn.

Description

xiii, 217 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Research on homosexuality ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Research on homosexuality ; v. 12.

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Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Note

"Also ... published as Journal of homosexuality, volume 11, numbers 3/4, summer 1985"--T.p. verso.

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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. Adams -- The Hijras of India: cultural and individual dimensions of an institutionalized third gender role / Serena Nanda -- Growing yams and men: an interpretation of Kiman 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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^^^85017758^

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Harvard Library