Gilbert H Herdt
Biographic Data
| ID | 142267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert H Herdt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert H |
| FAMILY NAME | Herdt |
| SIGNATURE | HERDT G H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Psychiatry UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, California 90024 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 266 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
Rituals of Manhood
Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Initiation
Sambia men come to "worship" those flutes with an ambivalent mixture of fear and affection. Sambia male and female residential patterns differ somewhat from those of other Highlands peoples. The nuclear family is an important subunit of the hamlet-based extended family of interrelated clans. Like the various forms of making grass sporrans or like incorporeally owned ritual customs, ritual flutes—both their size and associated tunes—are identified…
Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
So write women's studies pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson and anthropologist Gilbert Herdt in their introduction to Critical Terms for the Study of Gender, laying out the wide-ranging nature of this interdisciplinary and rapidly changing field. The sixth in the series of Critical Terms books, this volume provides an indispensable introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vit…
Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development
Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies -- Why secrecy? -- Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976 -- Paradox of the men's house -- Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality
Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea
Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral Panics, Sex Panics focus on case studies ranging f…
Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice
This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and stru…
Gay and lesbian aging: Research and future directions
Rituals of manhood: Male initiation in Papua New Guinea
Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of Aids: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives
Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS is the first demographic anthropological study of what happens to sexual behaviour and the rules of risk-taking in sexual encounters when people migrate from countryside to city, from one city to another, or from one country to another culture. It represents a milestone in the study of cross-cultural sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases. At the foreground of the study are commercial sex and …
Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay And Lesbian Lives
Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on maturing and living within societies, both historical and contemporary, that not only acknowledge but also incorporate same-gender desires and relation…
Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet
At Horizons, a lesbian and gay social service agency in Chicago, teens gather weekly to get support and share experiences as they begin the process of coming out. When they first join the group, they are often tentative, lonely, and even suicidal as they face the threat of rejection by family and friends. Gilbert Herdt, an anthropologist, and Andrew Boxer, a developmental psychologist, spent two years studying a diverse group of teens at Horizons…
The time of Aids: Social Analysis, Theory, and Method
Cultural psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development
"This collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics is an outgrowth of the internationally known "Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development." It raises the idea of a new discipline of cultural psychology through the study of the relationship between psyche and culture, subject and object, person and world, with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, person…
The sambia ?turnim-man: Sociocultural and clinical aspects of gender formation in male pseudohermaphrodites with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in Papua New Guinea
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
A Comment on Cultural Attributes and Fluidity of Bisexuality
Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) of the idea of the bisexual identity are examined from the standpoint of their cross-cultural significance. Examples from recent studies in Melanesia are used to highlight possible areas of exploration for future research in homosexuality and bisexuality. The idea of fluidity of sexu…
Cultural/Ethnology: Oedipus in the Trobriands
The Development of Masculinity: A Cross-Cultural Contribution
We have examined, using data from a Stone-Age New Guinea culture, two hypotheses regarding the development of masculinity: that a prolonged and too gratifying mother-son symbiosis threatens a boy's chances of becoming masculine and that a boy, to create masculinity, must raise a psychic barrier against the urge to be merged with his mother. The data show the hypothesized forces to be at work in these New Guineans much as in Western society
Sambia Nosehleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Women
Guardians of the flutes: Idioms of Masculinity
Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity: A Study of Ritualized Homosexual Behavior
Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral Panics, Sex Panics focus on case studies ranging f…
The Development of Masculinity: A Cross-Cultural Contribution
We have examined, using data from a Stone-Age New Guinea culture, two hypotheses regarding the development of masculinity: that a prolonged and too gratifying mother-son symbiosis threatens a boy's chances of becoming masculine and that a boy, to create masculinity, must raise a psychic barrier against the urge to be merged with his mother. The data show the hypothesized forces to be at work in these New Guineans much as in Western society
Rituals of manhood: Male initiation in Papua New Guinea
Sambia Nosehleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Women
The sambia ?turnim-man: Sociocultural and clinical aspects of gender formation in male pseudohermaphrodites with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in Papua New Guinea
The Shaman's « Calling » among the Sambia of New Guinea
Cet article décrit la crise, le comportement et le rôle social du chamane sambia. Le rêve et d'autres expériences subjectives chez les enfants sont interprétés comme le signe d' « élection » du futur chamane. Par la suite, les hommes sont initiés au cours de cérémonies rattachées à un culte et les femmes vivent certains événements traumatiques qui précipitent la transe et la possession chamanique. Les rêves donnent lieu à des prophéties banales o…
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
A Comment on Cultural Attributes and Fluidity of Bisexuality
Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) of the idea of the bisexual identity are examined from the standpoint of their cross-cultural significance. Examples from recent studies in Melanesia are used to highlight possible areas of exploration for future research in homosexuality and bisexuality. The idea of fluidity of sexu…
Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea
The Shaman's « Calling » among the Sambia of New Guinea
Cet article décrit la crise, le comportement et le rôle social du chamane sambia. Le rêve et d'autres expériences subjectives chez les enfants sont interprétés comme le signe d' « élection » du futur chamane. Par la suite, les hommes sont initiés au cours de cérémonies rattachées à un culte et les femmes vivent certains événements traumatiques qui précipitent la transe et la possession chamanique. Les rêves donnent lieu à des prophéties banales o…
Guardians of the flutes: Idioms of Masculinity
Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity: A Study of Ritualized Homosexual Behavior
The Development of Masculinity: A Cross-Cultural Contribution
We have examined, using data from a Stone-Age New Guinea culture, two hypotheses regarding the development of masculinity: that a prolonged and too gratifying mother-son symbiosis threatens a boy's chances of becoming masculine and that a boy, to create masculinity, must raise a psychic barrier against the urge to be merged with his mother. The data show the hypothesized forces to be at work in these New Guineans much as in Western society
Sambia Nosehleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Women
A Comment on Cultural Attributes and Fluidity of Bisexuality
Selected aspects of the "essentialist" critiques and reviews in Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues (De Cecco & Shively, eds., 1983/1984) of the idea of the bisexual identity are examined from the standpoint of their cross-cultural significance. Examples from recent studies in Melanesia are used to highlight possible areas of exploration for future research in homosexuality and bisexuality. The idea of fluidity of sexu…
Cultural/Ethnology: Oedipus in the Trobriands
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
The sambia ?turnim-man: Sociocultural and clinical aspects of gender formation in male pseudohermaphrodites with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency in Papua New Guinea
Cultural psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development
"This collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics is an outgrowth of the internationally known "Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development." It raises the idea of a new discipline of cultural psychology through the study of the relationship between psyche and culture, subject and object, person and world, with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, person…
The time of Aids: Social Analysis, Theory, and Method
Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet
At Horizons, a lesbian and gay social service agency in Chicago, teens gather weekly to get support and share experiences as they begin the process of coming out. When they first join the group, they are often tentative, lonely, and even suicidal as they face the threat of rejection by family and friends. Gilbert Herdt, an anthropologist, and Andrew Boxer, a developmental psychologist, spent two years studying a diverse group of teens at Horizons…
Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of Aids: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives
Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS is the first demographic anthropological study of what happens to sexual behaviour and the rules of risk-taking in sexual encounters when people migrate from countryside to city, from one city to another, or from one country to another culture. It represents a milestone in the study of cross-cultural sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases. At the foreground of the study are commercial sex and …
Same Sex, Different Cultures: Exploring Gay And Lesbian Lives
Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on maturing and living within societies, both historical and contemporary, that not only acknowledge but also incorporate same-gender desires and relation…
Rituals of manhood: Male initiation in Papua New Guinea
Gay and lesbian aging: Research and future directions
Sexual Inequalities and Social Justice
This pioneering collection of ten ethnographically rich essays signals the emergence of a new paradigm of social analysis committed to understanding and analyzing social oppression in the context of sexuality and gender. The contributors, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists representing anthropology, sociology, public health, and psychology, illuminate the role of sexuality in producing and reproducing inequality, difference, and stru…
Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights
Finalist for 2010 LGBT Anthology Award from the Lambda Literary AwardsUnwed teen mothers, abortion, masturbation, pornography, gay marriage, sex trafficking, homosexuality, and HIV are just a few in a long line of issues that have erupted into panics. These sexual panics spark moral crusades and campaigns, defining and shaping how we think about sexual and reproductive rights. The essays in Moral Panics, Sex Panics focus on case studies ranging f…
Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Lewis Henry Morgan and Victorian secret societies -- Why secrecy? -- Secrecy among the Sambia, 1974-1976 -- Paradox of the men's house -- Colonialism and the dissolution of secret reality
Rituals of Manhood: Male Initiation in Papua New Guinea
Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development
Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
So write women's studies pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson and anthropologist Gilbert Herdt in their introduction to Critical Terms for the Study of Gender, laying out the wide-ranging nature of this interdisciplinary and rapidly changing field. The sixth in the series of Critical Terms books, this volume provides an indispensable introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vit…
Rituals of Manhood
Fetish and Fantasy in Sambia Initiation
Sambia men come to "worship" those flutes with an ambivalent mixture of fear and affection. Sambia male and female residential patterns differ somewhat from those of other Highlands peoples. The nuclear family is an important subunit of the hamlet-based extended family of interrelated clans. Like the various forms of making grass sporrans or like incorporeally owned ritual customs, ritual flutes—both their size and associated tunes—are identified…
Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Congresses (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Homosexuality (5 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Male Homosexuality (4 works)