false 160386 0 0 275165 0226461009 9780226461007 7 <![CDATA[Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173333351m/275165.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275165.Travesti_Sex_Gender_and_Culture_among_Brazilian_Transgendered_Prostitutes 3.95 86 --Regina Marler ]]> 160386 3.88 184 18 290651 1585423866 9781585423866 7 <![CDATA[Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173454846m/290651.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290651.Fat_The_Anthropology_of_an_Obsession 3.80 64
With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-versally damned-as one might think. Enlisting thirteen anthropologists and a fat activist, editors and anthropologists Don Kulick and Anne Meneley have produced an unconventional-and unprecedented-examination of fat in various cultural and social contexts. In this anthology, these writers argue that fat is neither a mere physical state nor an inert concept. Instead, it is a construct built by culture and judged in courts of public opinion, courts whose laws vary from society to society.

From the anthropology of "fat-talk" among teenage girls in Sweden to the veneration of Spam in Hawaii; from fear of the fat-sucking pishtaco vampire in the Andes to the underground allure of fat porn stars like Supersize Betsy-this anthology provides fresh perspectives on a subject more complex than love handles, and less easily understood than a number on a scale. Fat proves that fat can be beautiful, evil, pornographic, delicious, shameful, ugly, or magical. It all depends on who-and where-you are.]]> 160386 3.88 184 18 121503 3.76 71 7 335738 0521414849 9780521414845 2 <![CDATA[Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173845686m/335738.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335738.Language_Shift_and_Cultural_Reproduction_Socialization_Self_and_Syncretism_in_a_Papua_New_Guinean_Village 3.79 14 160386 3.88 184 18 330533 0521009693 9780521009690 0 <![CDATA[Language and Sexuality]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173806183m/330533.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330533.Language_and_Sexuality 3.70 10 189681 3.86 35 5 160386 3.88 184 18 809062 0415088186 9780415088183 2 <![CDATA[Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178580243m/809062.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/809062.Taboo_Sex_Identity_and_Erotic_Subjectivity_in_Anthropological_Fieldwork 3.75 4
Taboo looks at how the anthropologist's sexuality is perceived by the people with whom he or she does research. It looks at the frequency of sexual violence and intimidation in the field and why its existence is virtually unmentioned in anthropology. Other issues, including same-sex relationships, seduction and eroticism in the field, and traditional sex roles, are confronted. This lively book explores the influence this tabooed topic has had on the entire practice and production of anthropology. Both the seasoned anthropologist and those about to undertake fieldwork will find that Taboo contains engrossing articles on the types of personal and professional experiences which make up sexual life in the field.
]]> 160386 3.88 184 18 6907218 0822345986 9780822345985 0 <![CDATA[Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6907218-homophobias 0.0 0 The contributors to this volume open up the scope of inquiry into processes of homophobia, moving the analysis of a particular form of hate into new, wider sociocultural and political fields. The ongoing production of homophobic discourses is carefully analyzed in a diverse range of sites, past and present--American Christian churches, Greece, India, the Caribbean, New York City, Australia, and Indonesia--in order to uncover homophobias' complex operational processes and intimate relationships to nationalism, sexism, racism, class, and colonialism. The contributors to this volume also critically inquire into the limitations of the term "homophobia" and interrogate and question its utility as a cross-cultural term.

Contributors. Steven Angelides, Tom Boellstorff, Lawrence Cohen, Don Kulick, Suzanne LaFont, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David A. B. Murray, Brian Riedel, Constance R. Sullivan-Blum

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Contributors. Steven Angelides, Tom Boellstorff, Lawrence Cohen, Don Kulick, Suzanne LaFont, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David A. B. Murray, Brian Riedel, Constance R. Sullivan-Blum

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