Deborah Elliston
Biographic Data
| ID | 215326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Elliston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliston |
| SIGNATURE | ELLISTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1060-935X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters
In this article I analyze stories about the negotiation of European racialization ideologies in the Society Islands (Tahiti and its Islands) in the late eighteenth century. My focus is the disjunctures between European understandings of their encounters at Tahiti, and what Pacific scholars have come to understand of Polynesian understandings of themselves and various foreigners in that early period. In doing so, I draw out the ways sexuality and …
Critical Reflexivity and Sexuality Studies in Anthropology: Siting Sexuality in Research, Theory, Ethnography, and Pedagogy
A passion for the nation: Masculinity, modernity, and nationalist struggle
In the mid-1990s, young Polynesian men emerged at the frontlines of proindependence sentiment and mobilization in the Society Islands of France's "overseas territory," French Polynesia. In this article, I ask why. In pursuing that question, I argue for the theoretical and empirical productivity of shifting the associations between masculinity and nationalist struggle out of the realm of common sense and into that of the sociological; that is, of …
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists: AAA Meeting (or: “Don't Wear Red)
Geographies of Gender and Politics: The Place of Difference in Polynesian Nationalism
Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific
Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii. 367 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index
Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and beyond
In this article I critique anthropological uses of the construct of "ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and examine related theoretical problems in the cross-cultural study of sexualities, homosexualities, and erotics. I argue that identifying as "ritualized homosexuality" the semen practices through which boys are made into men in some Melanesian societies engages and relies on Western ideas about sexuality that obscure the indigenous meanin…
Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and beyond
In this article I critique anthropological uses of the construct of "ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and examine related theoretical problems in the cross-cultural study of sexualities, homosexualities, and erotics. I argue that identifying as "ritualized homosexuality" the semen practices through which boys are made into men in some Melanesian societies engages and relies on Western ideas about sexuality that obscure the indigenous meanin…
A passion for the nation: Masculinity, modernity, and nationalist struggle
In the mid-1990s, young Polynesian men emerged at the frontlines of proindependence sentiment and mobilization in the Society Islands of France's "overseas territory," French Polynesia. In this article, I ask why. In pursuing that question, I argue for the theoretical and empirical productivity of shifting the associations between masculinity and nationalist struggle out of the realm of common sense and into that of the sociological; that is, of …
Geographies of Gender and Politics: The Place of Difference in Polynesian Nationalism
Critical Reflexivity and Sexuality Studies in Anthropology: Siting Sexuality in Research, Theory, Ethnography, and Pedagogy
Erotic Anthropology: "Ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and beyond
In this article I critique anthropological uses of the construct of "ritualized homosexuality" in Melanesia and examine related theoretical problems in the cross-cultural study of sexualities, homosexualities, and erotics. I argue that identifying as "ritualized homosexuality" the semen practices through which boys are made into men in some Melanesian societies engages and relies on Western ideas about sexuality that obscure the indigenous meanin…
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists: AAA Meeting (or: “Don't Wear Red)
Geographies of Gender and Politics: The Place of Difference in Polynesian Nationalism
Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific
Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly, eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii. 367 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index
A passion for the nation: Masculinity, modernity, and nationalist struggle
In the mid-1990s, young Polynesian men emerged at the frontlines of proindependence sentiment and mobilization in the Society Islands of France's "overseas territory," French Polynesia. In this article, I ask why. In pursuing that question, I argue for the theoretical and empirical productivity of shifting the associations between masculinity and nationalist struggle out of the realm of common sense and into that of the sociological; that is, of …
Critical Reflexivity and Sexuality Studies in Anthropology: Siting Sexuality in Research, Theory, Ethnography, and Pedagogy
Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters
In this article I analyze stories about the negotiation of European racialization ideologies in the Society Islands (Tahiti and its Islands) in the late eighteenth century. My focus is the disjunctures between European understandings of their encounters at Tahiti, and what Pacific scholars have come to understand of Polynesian understandings of themselves and various foreigners in that early period. In doing so, I draw out the ways sexuality and …
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Citation (2 works)