Anthropology emergence gay in lesbian theory

Description:By bringing poor sexual minorities into view, the author re-enforces the need to look at the ways in which systemic ideologies and institutional practices of work and social welfare create barriers between the poor and the affluent in sexual minority groups. Lewin offers no way out of this problem within anthropology but ends with this assertion: For the student who is familiar with some of what gay and lesbian studies and queer theory have to offer, Out in Theory as a collection, feels more like a beginners survey of this complicated terrain. Finally, in Chapter eleven, Deborah Elliston calls on anthropology to do some restructuring. The author suggests reasons why homosexuality is relevant to the archeological explorations of past societies, and offers up three case studies in the field that have uncovered evidence about variation in homosexual expression. Journals that are combined with another title.

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