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Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the
studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers, to more
recent analyses of gay sex, transsexualism, and the newly visible
forms of contemporary sexuality in the West. "The Anthropology of
Sex" draws on the comparative field research of anthropologists to
examine the relationship between sex as identity, practice and
experience. Sexual cultures vary enormously and, while often the
topic of tabloid titillation, they are more rarely subjected to
strict cultural analysis. "The Anthropology of Sex" is the first
work to critically synthesize over a century of comparative
expertise, knowledge and understanding of diverse sexual forms. The
book: -Explores sexuality from diversity to perversity and asks how
diverse sexual practices are linked.-Probes the cultural and
comparative context of contemporary sexual practice and belief.
-Examines the shaping of sex by global and globalizing forces. "The
Anthropology of Sex" will be key reading for undergraduate and
postgraduate courses in anthropology and related disciplines.
Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be
rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual
acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously
defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and
subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a
politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform
permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This
collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that
have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and
the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as
domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex,
and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary
Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to
Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the
"naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical
practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the
humanities and social sciences.
Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be
rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual
acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously
defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and
subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a
politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform
permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This
collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that
have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and
the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as
domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex,
and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary
Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to
Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the
"naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical
practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the
humanities and social sciences.
Presenting a range of ethnographic case studies from around the
globe, this edited collection offers new ways of thinking about the
interconnectivity of gender, place, and emotion in musical
performance. While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long
recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and
emotion in musical performance, these concepts are seldom analyzed
together. Performing Gender, Place, andEmotion in Music is the
first book-length study to examine the interweaving of these three
concepts from a cross-cultural perspective. Contributors show how a
theoretical focus one dimension implicates the others, creating
anexus of performative engagement. This process is examined across
different regions around the globe, through two key questions: How
are aesthetic, emotional, and imagined relations between performers
and places embodied musically? And in what ways is this performance
of emotion gendered across quotidian, ritual, and staged events?
Through ethnographic case studies, the volume explores issues of
emplacement, embodiment, and emotion in three parts: landscape and
emotion; memory and attachment; and nationalism and indigeneity.
Part I focuses on emplaced sentiments in Australasia through
Vietnamese spirit possession, Balinese dance, and land rights in
Aboriginal performance. PartII addresses memories of Aboriginal
choral singing, belonging in Bavarian music-making, and
gender-performativity in Polish song. Part III evaluates emotion
and fandom around a Korean singer in Japan, and Sami
interconnectivitiesin traditional and modern musical practices.
Beverley Diamond provides a thought-provoking commentary in the
afterword. Contributors: Beverley Diamond, Fiona Magowan, Jonathan
McIntosh, Barley Norton, Tina K. Ramnarine, Muriel Swijghuisen
Reigersberg, Sara R. Walmsley-Pledl, Louise Wrazen, Christine Yano.
Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University,
Belfast. Louise Wrazen is Associate Professor of Music at York
University.
Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance,
resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted
conflict to post-conflict contexts. When they are used in a
socially engaged participatory capacity, they can create
counter-narratives to conflict. Based on original research in three
continents, this book advances an interdisciplinary, comparative
approach to exploring the role of sonic and creative practices in
addressing the effects of conflict. Each case study illustrates how
participatory arts genres are variously employed by musicians, arts
facilitators, theatre practitioners, community activists and other
stakeholders as a means of 'strategic creativity' to transform
trauma and promote empowerment. This research further highlights
the complex dynamics of delivering and managing creativity among
those who have experienced violence, as they seek opportunities to
generate alternative arenas for engagement, healing and
transformation.
Presents an ethnographical account of the way that song, dance and
musical sensitivity weave into the lives of an aboriginal community
of Australia. Invites the reader to rethink the place of ecology in
music and emotion, and how emotions transcend cultural difference.
It shows how sounds and the senses shape feelings for the land and
seascape, exploring these themes in relation to Yolngu of north
east Arnhem Land in Northern Australia. This rich ethnographic
study makes a distinctive contribution to the tradition of
anthropological analysis which focuses on the located nature of
human sensual experience. FIONA MAGOWAN is a lecturer in
Anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast Series editors: Wendy
James and N. J. Allen Australia: University of Western Australia
Press
Indigenous Music and Dance explores a range of Indigenous music and
dance forms and performances in the Torres Strait and tropical
Northern Territory. It reveals the way traditional music and dance
have responded to colonial control and, more recently, to other
external forces. The book explores the way musical past and present
exist as a continuum of creativity and the contested nature of
contemporary cultural performances. In addition, this book looks at
the cross-cultural issues of recording and teaching music and
dance. Individual contributors, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous,
demonstrate how local music and dance have been subjected to
missionary, institutional, popular and global influences. They
provide a cultural background and history of Torres Strait music
and discuss how contemporary Christian music and dance in Arnhem
Land incorporates traditional ritual. They unpack the complex form
and structure of an Australian Aboriginal song series and examine
the transformation of
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