Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture

by Gilbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller

Book Overview

Intimate Communications is the first systematic effort to explore and interpret erotic experience and gender identity in a cross-cultural perspective. This is a diologic work that emphasizes the need for exact descriptions of people's statements, feelings, and fantasies, presenting data from individual interviews with the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. Using the ethnographic methods of anthropology informed by the clinical techniques of psychoanalysis,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231069006
• ISBN13: 9780231069007
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.