Sex in the field -- the dilemma of whether to cover up or display
sexual identities and desires during the course of anthropological
fieldwork -- is one of the best-kept secrets in the discipline.
Contending that the conventional pose of a genderless, asexual,
ethnographic researcher is impossible to sustain, this volume
brings sex and sexuality into the open as essential components of
ethnographic study that must be overtly recognized and proactively
addressed.
Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist recounts the real-life
experiences of anthropologists who are forced to acknowledge that
their hosts in the field view them as gendered beings in a social
context, not as asexual, objective observers. Far from controlling
the research environment and defining the terms of
interviewer-informant relationships, these researchers find they
must engage in a process of negotiating their position -- including
their sexuality -- within the communities they study.
Ranging from public baths in Austria to lesbian bars in Taiwan
and from Mexico to Nigeria to Finland to Japan, Sex, Sexuality, and
the Anthropologist raises critical questions about ethnographers'
reflexivity, subjectivity, and detachment, confronting the
challenge of a holistic approach to the anthropological
enterprise.
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