Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and
Gay Anthropologists.
Originally published in the early 1990s, "Bodies, Pleasures, and
Passions" quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the
social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and
sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and
interviews, together with the analysis of historical and literary
texts, anthropologist Richard Parker mapped out the multiple
cultural systems that structure gender, sexuality, and erotic
practices in Brazil, and helped to open up a new wave of social
science research on sexuality.
Using ethnographic methods focusing on sexual meanings as an
alternative to traditional surveys of sexual behavior, Parker
argues that sexual life can only be fully understood through an
analysis of the cultural logics that shape experience. Drawing on
the tradition of interpretive anthropology, he focuses on the
diverse sexual scripts that have been articulated in Brazilian
culture and examines the often contradictory ways in which these
scripts shape the sexual experience of different individuals. He
highlights the sexual socialization of children and young people,
and the changing sexual realities of adults living in a rapidly
changing world. He underlines the ways in which complex cultural
forms such as carnaval can be understood as stories that Brazilians
tell themselves about themselves and about the meaning of sexuality
in contemporary Brazilian life.
The 1991 book was the winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.
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