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...

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...