Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist

by Michael Ashkenazi

Book Overview

Sex in the field--the dilemma of whether to cover up or display sexual identities and desires during the course of anthropological fieldwork--is one of the best-kept secrets in the discipline. Contending that the conventional pose of a genderless, asexual, ethnographic researcher is impossible to sustain, this volume brings sex and sexuality into the open as essential components of ethnographic study that must be overtly recognized and proactively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252067479
• ISBN13: 9780252067471
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"