Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring patterns it has formed throughout history.
" An] indispensable resource on same-sex sexual relationships and their social contexts. . . . Essential reading." "Choice"
" P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims. . . . O]riginal and refreshing. . . . A] sensational book, part of what I see emerging as...

Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring patterns it has formed throughout history.
" An] indispensable resource on same-sex sexual relationships and their social contexts. . . . Essential reading." -Choice
" P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims. . . . O]riginal and refreshing. . . . A] sensational book, part of what I see...

Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate and often oppress their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens when anthropologists fail to make fundamental ethnic and political distinctions in their work. Keelung Hong and Stephen O. Murray examine how Taiwanese realities have been represented and misrepresented in American social science literature, especially anthropology, in the post World War II period. They trace...

In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of four years the expedition made stops on the east and west coasts of South America; visited Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tahiti; discovered the Antarctic land mass; and explored the Fiji Islands, Tonga, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Pacific Coast of North America. In The Shaping of American Ethnography Barry Alan Joyce illuminates the process by which the Americans on the expedition filtered...

The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality.

The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often...