Gilbert H. Herdt, editor
Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
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9780520080966
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This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings.
"The authors place the homosexual behavior in the context of gender roles so effectively that one wonders how previous anthropologists wrote about relations between Melanesian women and men without considering this important aspect of behavior."—Walter L. Williams, Journal of Anthropological Research
"Must reading for serious investigators of sex and gender. . . . This documentation of several societies where homosexual relations among men are both universal and obligatory challenges a number of medical, biological, and psychological theories of homosexuality."—Barry D. Adam, American Journal of Sociology
"Must reading for serious investigators of sex and gender. . . . This documentation of several societies where homosexual relations among men are both universal and obligatory challenges a number of medical, biological, and psychological theories of homosexuality."—Barry D. Adam, American Journal of Sociology
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