Focusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious
dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and
ethnography. Anthropological writing tends to focus on the
influence of status markers such as position, gender, ethnicity,
and age on fieldwork. By contrast, far less attention has been paid
to how sex, sexuality, eroticism, desire, attraction, and rejection
affect ethnographic research. In the book, anthropologists reflect
on their own encounters with sex during fieldwork, revealing how
attraction and desire influence the choice of fieldwork subjects,
field sites and friendships. They also examine the resulting impact
on fieldwork findings and the generation of knowledge. Based on
fieldwork in Germany, Denmark, Greece, the USA, Brazil, South
Africa, Singapore, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, and India, the
contributors go beyond the common heterosexuality/homosexuality
divide to address topics which include celibacy, polyamory and
sadomasochism. This long overdue text provides perspectives from a
new generation of anthropologists and brings the debate into the
21st century. Examining challenging and controversial issues in
contemporary fieldwork, this is essential reading for students in
anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, sociology, research
methods, and ethics courses.
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