The Anthropology of Sex

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ID19929196
AuthorsHastings Donnan, F Magowan (0000-0003-0391-6826)
Year2020
Pages224
Publication date2020-05-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAnthropology of Sex (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003086871
OpenAlexW362575356
Open LibraryOL29534704M
ISBN9781003086871
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers, to more recent analyses of gay sex, transsexualism, and the newly visible forms of contemporary sexuality in the West. The Anthropology of Sex draws on the comparative field research of anthropologists to examine the relationship between sex as identity, practice and experience. Sexual cultures vary enormously and, while often the topic of tabloid titillation, they are more rarely subjected to strict cultural analysis. The Anthropology of Sex is the first work to critically synthesise over a century of comparative expertise, knowledge and understanding of diverse sexual forms. - Explores sexuality from diversity to perversity and asks how diverse sexual practices are linked. - Probes the cultural and comparative context of contemporary sexual practice and belief. - Examines the shaping of sex by global and globalizing forces. The Anthropology of Sex will be key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in anthropology and related disciplines

Context (archaeology) · Ethnography · Human sexuality · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Sex work and related issues · Sex · Sex customs

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