Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality

by Harriet D. Lyons and Andrew P. Lyons

Book Overview

Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803229534
• ISBN13: 9780803229532
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"