Investigates the tensions that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. This book presents essays on topics that include old versus new sexual vocabularies, the rhetoric of gay-oriented magazines and news media, and verbal and nonverbalized sexual imagery in poetry.
Investigates the tensions that occur when processes of globalization bring one system of gay or lesbian language into contact with another. This book ...
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. Yet the case of gay and lesbian Indonesians also compels us to ask more fundamental questions about how we decide when two things are "the same" or "different." The book thus examines the possibilities of an "archipelagic" perspective on sameness and...
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation ...
In "A Coincidence of Desires," Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. Drawing on these experiences, he provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves "gay" (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, the English word "gay"). These case studies put...
In "A Coincidence of Desires," Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both ...
In "A Coincidence of Desires," Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. Drawing on these experiences, he provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves "gay" (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, the English word "gay"). These case studies put...
In "A Coincidence of Desires," Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both ...
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself.
In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds --...
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-p...
Data is too big to be left to the data analysts. Data: Now Bigger and Better brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropologyframeworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinship to gifts, everything old becomes rich with new insight when the anthropological archive washes over big data. Bringing together anthropology s classic debates and contemporary interventions, the book counters the future-oriented speculation so characteristic of discussions regarding big data. Drawing on the long-standing experience in...
Data is too big to be left to the data analysts. Data: Now Bigger and Better brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the ...
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. At the time of its initial publication in 2008, Coming of Age in Second Life was the first book of anthropology to examine this...
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtua...
