<p>Surveys Brazilian sexual culture, and discusses myths of origin, sex roles, sexual behavior, sexual language, carnival, and the impact of AIDS</p>

Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil

Politics & Social Sciences

Parker, Richard G.

Social Sciences

Beacon Pr

Latin American Male Homosexualities

This anthropological volume examines Latin American male homosexualities from theoretical, critical, ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and lexicological perspectives. The authors discuss male homosexualities in Spanish-speaking societies, in Brazil, and in indigenous societies in relation to family, society, culture, politics, economy, and ethnicity. They discuss homosexuality in pre-Columbian indigenous societies and in colonial and modern Latin America. Contributors explore wide-ranging issues such as homosexual categorization, machismo and homosexuality, the activo-pasivo cultural dichotomy, the gay image in Chicano fiction, male homosexuality and Afro-Brazilian possession cults, the gay movement and human rights, and others. The twenty-two articles and essays in this volume demonstrate that Latin American homosexuality is complex and diverse across history, nationalities, and ethnicities. In addition to Stephen O. Murray, contributors are Manuel Arboleda G., Beverly N. Chiñas, Wayne R. Dynes, Peter Fry, Paul Kutsche, Luiz Mott, Richard G. Parker, Karl J. Reinhardt, Clark L. Taylor, and Frederick L. Whitam.

Chinas, Beverly Newbold

Murray, Stephen O.

Fry, Peter

Kutsche, Paul

Dynes, Wayne R.

Taylor, Clark L.

Arboleda G., Manuel

Reinhardt, Karl J.

Mott, Luis

Whitam, Frederick L.

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay AnthropologistsOriginally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, together with the analysis of historical and literary texts, anthropologist Richard Parker mapped out the multiple cultural systems that structure gender, sexuality, and erotic practices in Brazil, and helped to open up a new wave of social science research on sexuality.Using ethnographic methods focusing on sexual meanings as an alternative to traditional surveys of sexual behavior, Parker argues that sexual life can only be fully understood through an analysis of the cultural logics that shape experience. Drawing on the tradition of interpretive anthropology, he focuses on the diverse sexual scripts that have been articulated in Brazilian culture and examines the often contradictory ways in which these scripts shape the sexual experience of different individuals. He highlights the sexual socialization of children and young people, and the changing sexual realities of adults living in a rapidly changing world. He underlines the ways in which complex cultural forms such as carnaval can be understood as stories that Brazilians tell themselves about themselves and about the meaning of sexuality in contemporary Brazilian life.

Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil, Second Edition

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Vanderbilt University Press

The National Fifth Reader: Containig a Treatise on Elocution; Exercises in Reading and Declamation; with biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes.

Watson, J. Madison

Literary

Salzwasser-Verlag

Sexualidades brasileiras (Portuguese Edition)

Relume Dumará

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