Dimensions
156 x 234 x 12mm
Sexual cultures vary enormously and, while often the subject of tabloid titillation, they are only rarely subjected to strict cultural analysis. Accessible and highly engaging, The Anthropology of Sex is the first work to critically synthesise over a century of comparative expertise, knowledge and understanding of diverse sexual forms.
It explores sexuality from diversity to perversity, analyses the relationship between sex as identity, practice and experience through a wide range of case material - from studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers to more recent analyses of gay sex and transexualism - and examines the shaping of sex by global forces in the contemporary world. It will be key reading for undergraduate or postgraduate courses in anthropology.
