Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist recounts the real-life experiences of anthropologists who are forced to acknowledge that their hosts in the field view them as gendered beings in a social context, not as asexual, objective observers. Far from controlling the research environment and defining the terms of interviewer-informant relationships, these researchers find they must engage in a process of negotiating their position -- including their sexuality -- within the communities they study.
Ranging from public baths in Austria to lesbian bars in Taiwan and from Mexico to Nigeria to Finland to Japan, Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist raises critical questions about ethnographers' reflexivity, subjectivity, and detachment, confronting the challenge of a holistic approach to the anthropological enterprise.
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Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist recounts the real-life experiences of anthropologists who are forced to acknowledge that their hosts in the field view them as gendered beings in a social context, not as asexual, objective observers. Far from controlling the research environment and defining the terms of interviewer-informant relationships, these researchers find they must engage in a process of negotiating their position -- including their sexuality -- within the communities they study.
Ranging from public baths in Austria to lesbian bars in Taiwan and from Mexico to Nigeria to Finland to Japan, Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist raises critical questions about ethnographers' reflexivity, subjectivity, and detachment, confronting the challenge of a holistic approach to the anthropological enterprise.
Imprint | University of Illinois Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 1999 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 1999 |
Editors | Fran Markowitz, Michael Ashkenazi |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 240 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-06747-1 |
Barcode | 9780252067471 |
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LSN | 0-252-06747-9 |