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Irregular connections : a history of anthropology and sexuality
Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital relations, and hierarchies of gender, class, and race. Because sex is the most private of activities and often carries a high emotional charge, it is peculiarly difficult to investigate. At times, such as the late 1920s and the last decade of the twentieth century, sexuality has been a central concern of anthropologists and focal in their theoretical formulations. At other times the study of sexuality has been marginalized. The anthropology of sex has sometimes been one of the main faces that anthropology presented to the public, often causing resentment within the discipline. Irregular Connections discusses several individuals who have played a significant role in the anthropological study of sexuality, including Sir Richard Burton, Havelock Ellis, Edward Westermarck, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, George Devereux, Robert Levy, Gilbert Herdt, Stephen O. Murray, and Esther Newton. Synthesizing a wealth of information from different anthropological traditions, the authors offer a seamless history of the anthropology of sex as it has been practiced and conceptualized in North America and Great Britain.
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Reflections: Buildings in Foreign Lands
The fourth describes the author's feelings when passing through a highly Jewish neighbourhood near her newly adopted home in Toronto, the proximity of which has forced her to confront the fact that she can neither escape her roots nor return to them without betraying the person she has become.
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Genital Cutting: The Past and Present of a Polythetic Category
In 1975, Rodney Needham suggested that some phenomena encountered by anthropologists, like certain kinds of descent systems, might be best understood as polythetic classes-categories whose members bear overlapping family resemblances to each other, as well as to members of other classes, but don't exhibit the sort of single and exclusive defining feature which conventional monothetic definitions assumed. In 1981, I suggested that it would be useful for accuracy and cross-cultural understanding to view female genital cutting as a polythetic class. This paper examines polythetic analyses of female genital cutting in the literature which has emerged since 1981, arguing that such approaches have improved our understanding, but have not resolved the problems inherent in cross-cultural dialogue. I explore the possibility that the multiplicity of significations embodied in female genital cutting may be indicative of an overdetermined category, whose complexity masks disturbing conflicts.
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Fifty Key Anthropologists
Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent anthropological thinkers. Names discussed include:
Clifford Geertz
Bronislaw Malinowski
Zora Neale Hurston
Sherry B. Ortner
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Rodney Needham
Mary Douglas
Marcel Mauss
This accessible A-Z guide contains helpful cross-referencing, a timeline of key dates and schools of thought, and suggestions for further reading. It will be of interest to students of anthropology and related subjects wanting a succinct overview of the ideas and impact of key anthropologists who have helped to shape the discipline.
Alphabetical List of Contents Chronological List of Contents Contributors Introduction. Fifty Key Anthropologists Appendix 1: Some Key Anthropological Terms Appendix 2: A Timeline Index
Robert Gordon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, USA, and Research Associate at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is the author of The Bushman Myth and Going Abroad: How to Travel Like an Anthropologist .
Andrew Lyons is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and current editor-in-chief of Anthropologica .
Harriet Lyons is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her books include Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality with Andrew Lyons.
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The New Anthropology of Sexuality
In this introduction to the section onThe New Anthropology of Sexuality, the guest editors establish the precedent of sexuality as an intellectual concern of the anthropological tradition as the journal theme of the contemporary politics of sexuality. Framing their discussion from their recent book Irregular Connections in which they traced the appearances & disappearances of sexuality in the history of anthropology in Britain & North America, the editors identify the ethnographic & theoretical trends reflected in the convergence of many changes & dispositions. In particular they find connections between debates about morality, ideas of equality, hierarchy & difference, and a Foucaultian view of sexuality as an \"especially dense transfer point for relations of power.\" A brief summary of the subsequent articles relates the theme of power to discussions of incest, trafficking of women, dissident sexuality, the same-sex marriage debate, & BDSM practice. The variety of topics covered by the articles in the journal reveals the complexity of sexuality as a topic, and reflects Foucault's suggestion that the sexual discourses which began to emerge in the 18th & 19th centuries multiple domains of deviance that were. rarely allowed to speak with their own voice are now breaking the privileged silence of the self defined center. References. J. Harwell
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