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This accessible book looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on examples that range from personal ads to phone sex, sado-masochistic scenes to sexual assault trials, this work provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality. Using a broad definition of "sexuality, " it encompasses not only issues surrounding sexual orientation and identity, but also questions about the dis...

Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned.

A look at sexuality in anthropological fieldwork. The author looks at how the anthropologists sexual identity in their 'home' society affects the kind of sexuality they are allowed to express in other cultures.

Don Kulick and Jens Rydstroem argue that for people with disabilities, being able to explore their sexuality is an issue of fundamental social justice. The authors analyze how Sweden and Denmark engage with the sexuality of people with disabilities, whereas Sweden hinders sexuality, Denmark supports it through the work of third-party sexual helpers.

Don Kulick and Jens Rydstroem argue that for people with disabilities, being able to explore their sexuality is an issue of fundamental social justice. The authors analyze how Sweden and Denmark engage with the sexuality of people with disabilities, whereas Sweden hinders sexuality, Denmark supports it through the work of third-party sexual helpers.

In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called "travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. "Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles, and linguistic pronouns. More dramatically, they ingest massive doses of female hormones and inject up to twenty liters of industrial sili...

AcknowledgmentsNote on the TranscriptionsIntroduction 1: The Context of Travesti Life 2: Becoming a Travesti 3: A Man in the House 4: The Pleasure of Prostitution 5: Travesti Gendered Subjectivity Notes References Index

This book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among the people of Gapun, a small community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.

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? "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. "Taboo looks at how the anthropologist's sexuality is perceived by the people with whom he or she does resea...

An eclectic and highly original examination of one of the most dynamic concepts-and constructs-in the world. With more than one billion overweight adults in the world today, obesity has become an epidemic. But fat is not as straightforward-or even as uni-versally damned-as one might think. Enlisting thirteen anthropologists and a fat activist, editors and anthropologists Don Kulick and Anne Meneley have produced an unconventional-and unprecede...