Sex: Ethnographic Encounters (Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge)

by Dieter Haller (Editor), Dieter Haller (Editor), Richard Joseph Martin (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $142.34

  Focusing on the unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. In the book, anthropologists reflect on their own encounters with sex during fieldwork, revealing how attraction, sexuality, rejection, 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.