Sex: Ethnographic Encounters

ISBN-13: 9781474294713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Dieter Haller; Richard Joseph Martin

Opis

Anthropological writing tends to focus on the influence of status markers such as position, gender, ethnicity, and age on fieldwork. By contrast, far less attention has been paid to how sex, sexuality, eroticism, desire, attraction, and rejection affect ethnographic research.Focusing on this unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex: Ethnographic Encounters explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. In thirteen chapters, anthropologists reflect on their own encounters with sex during fieldwork, revealing how attraction and desire influence the choice of fieldwork subjects, field sites, friendships - and the resulting impact on fieldwork findings and the generation of knowledge. Based on fieldwork in Germany, Denmark, Greece, the USA, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, and India, the contributors go beyond the common heterosexuality/homosexuality divide to address topics which include celibacy, polyamory, and sadomasochism. Building on the ground-breaking texts from the 1990s which first broke the silence surrounding sex in the field, this long overdue text provides perspectives from a new generation of anthropologists and brings the debate into the 21st century. Examining challenging, controversial issues in contemporary fieldwork, this is essential reading for students in anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, research methods, and ethics courses.

Spis treści

Foreword John Borneman, Princeton University, USA Introduction Richard Joseph Martin, Harvard University, USA and Dieter Haller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany 1. Towards an Intimately 'Impure' Ethnography: The Limits of Non-Participant Observation Timothy M. Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, USA 2. When Bodies Talk: Indulging Anthropology Sebastian Mohr, Aarhus University, Denmark 3. 'Going With': Desire and Power Amid the Politics of Asylum in Greece Heath Cabot, College of the Atlantic, USA 4. (Un)Changing Men in the Face of AIDS in South Africa Hanspeter Reihling, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany 5. Fieldwork and Erotic Subjectivity in an American NeoPagan Community Susan Harper, Texas Women's University, USA 6. The Anthropologist’s New Clothes: Ethnographic Exposure and BDSM in Berlin Richard Joseph Martin, Harvard University, USA 7. A Camel Walks into a Brothel: Passing Anxieties in the Sexual Economies of Brazil Gregory C. Mitchell, Williams College, USA 8. In Bed with My Informant: Navigating Intimacy and Ethics in Singapore Adlina Maulud, Purdue University, USA 9. Dating a Gypsy Punk Musician and Ethnographic Fieldwork among Brazilian Romanies Diana Budur, Princeton University, USA 10. Public Vegetarianism and Public Menstruation: Staging Chastity in Gujarat Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg, Tubingen University, Germany 11. The Naked Fear: Desire and Identity in Morocco Dieter Haller, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany 12. Faux Amis: On the Morals of Not Being Gay in Istanbul Samuel Williams, Musée du quai Branly, France 13. Im/Possibilities in the Field: Lessons from Jerusalem Robert Phillips, Ball State University, USA Guide for Further Reading William Leap, American University, USA Bibliography Index

O autorze

Richard Joseph Martin is Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard University, USA. Dieter Haller is Professor of Social Anthropology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.