Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405190531 ISBN 13 : 9781405190534

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

This thought-provoking new collection, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader offers insights into the diversity of human social beliefs and practices relating to sexuality in different times and in different cultures around the world.

• Substantial editorial introductions set each Part in context of the field, providing readers helpful background and explanatory notes.

• Presents a comprehensive collection of key historical and current readings in the social anthropology of sexuality
• Includes literature on both heterosexualities and same-sex sexualities
• Explores the key works and major debates of prominent scholars in the field, such as Mead, Malinowski, Newton, Herdt, and others
• Introduces readers to major theoretical developments (“essentialist” and “constructionist” positions)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

ANDREW P. LYONS is Editor-in-Chief of Anthropologica, journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society. He is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He is a co-author, with Harriet Lyons, of Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality (2004).

HARRIET D. LYONS is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Ontario.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405190531
• ISBN 13: 9781405190534
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Éditeur: Lyons Andrew P., Lyons Harriet D.
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