Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture / Edition 1

by Gilbert Herdt, Robert Stoller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231069014
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	04/29/1992
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	467
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.99(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

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)

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