Latin American Male Homosexualities

This anthropological volume examines Latin American male homosexualities from theoretical, critical, ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and lexicological perspectives. The authors discuss male homosexualities in Spanish-speaking societies, in Brazil, and in indigenous societies in relation to family, society, culture, politics, economy, and ethnicity. They discuss homosexuality in pre-Columbian indigenous societies and in colonial and modern Latin America. Contributors explore wide-ranging issues such as homosexual categorization, machismo and homosexuality, the activo-pasivo cultural dichotomy, the gay image in Chicano fiction, male homosexuality and Afro-Brazilian possession cults, the gay movement and human rights, and others. The twenty-two articles and essays in this volume demonstrate that Latin American homosexuality is complex and diverse across history, nationalities, and ethnicities. In addition to Stephen O. Murray, contributors are Manuel Arboleda G., Beverly N. Chiñas, Wayne R. Dynes, Peter Fry, Paul Kutsche, Luiz Mott, Richard G. Parker, Karl J. Reinhardt, Clark L. Taylor, and Frederick L. Whitam.

Politics & Social Sciences

Chinas, Beverly Newbold

Murray, Stephen O.

Fry, Peter

Kutsche, Paul

Parker, Richard G.

Dynes, Wayne R.

Taylor, Clark L.

Arboleda G., Manuel

Reinhardt, Karl J.

Mott, Luis

Whitam, Frederick L.

Social Sciences

Univ of New Mexico Pr

<p>One of the best accounts of how to become an anthropologist doing fieldwork! Readers will enjoy this insightful portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls that anthropologist Beverly Chinas experienced while studying women's roles in the culture of the Isthmus Zapotec. The story of her long- term research, told here with honesty and grace, allows the reader to make several trips to the field in different roles: as graduate student gathering dissertation material, as young professional pursuing more sharply defined goals, and as mature researcher directing the work of assistants. The reader encounters Zapotec culture and people through the eyes of the questioning anthropologist-narrator, discovers the methods and techniques of anthropological investigation, and, instructed by the author s commitment to her Zapotec friends, learns how friendships may transcend cultural barriers. Includes eight-page color insert.</p>

LA Zandunga: Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico

Anthropology

Waveland Pr Inc.

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