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More copies of this ISBN:Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Cultureby Gilbert Herdt
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"Intimate Communications" is the first systematic effort to explore and interpret erotic experience and gender identity in a cross-cultural perspective. This is a diologic work that emphasizes the need for exact descriptions of people's statements, feelings, and fantasies, presenting data from individual interviews with the Sambia of Papua New Guinea. Using the ethnographic methods of anthropology informed by the clinical techniques of psychoanalysis, Gildbert Herdt and Robert J. Stoller explore the culture and erotics of the Sambia and the role of subjectivity in ethnographic research. Book News Annotation:Paper edition of the 1990 publication. Using the ethnographic methods
of anthropology informed by the clinical techniques of
psychoanalysis, the authors explore erotic experience and gender
identity in a cross- cultural perspective. Their data is from
individual interviews with the Sambia of Papua, New Guinea.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:"Intimate Communications is a ground-breaking work. Its scholarship is impeccable....[It] is perhaps the only work in anthropology which demonstrates both the use and the value of training in and the application of clinical methods in ethnographic research, particularly in the areas of research concerned with sex, gender, and selfhood." Kenneth E. Read, University of Washington, Seattle Synopsis:Erotics And The Study Of Culture. Intimate Communications is the first systematic effort to explore and interpret erotic experience and gender identity in a cross-cultural perspective. This is a dialogic work that emphasizes the need for exact descriptions of people's statements, feelings, and fantasies, presenting data from individual interviews with the Sambia of Papua New Guinea.
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