"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.
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"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.
Imprint | Columbia University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | April 1992 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | April 1992 |
Authors | Gilbert Herdt, Robert Stoller |
Dimensions | 278 x 215 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 467 |
Edition | Revised |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-06901-4 |
Barcode | 9780231069014 |
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LSN | 0-231-06901-4 |