Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork

by Margaret Willson and Don Kulick

Book Overview

Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts. How does the sexual identity that anthropologists have in their "home" society affect the kind of sexuality they are allowed to express in other cultures? How is the anthropologists' sexuality perceived by the people with whom he or she does research? How common is sexual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415088194
• ISBN13: 9780415088190
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"