Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader

This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices.

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• Moves beyond other "lesbian and gay studies" readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures.
  
• Offers readings from all four subfields of anthropology: cultural, biological, linguistic, and archaeological (along with historical and applied anthropology).
  
• Includes discussion of biotechnology and bioethics, health and illness, language, ethnicity, identity, politics, post-colonialism, kinship, development, and policymaking.