Intimate Communications
Download or Read eBook Intimate Communications PDF written by Gilbert Herdt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Gilbert Herdt |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0231069014 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780231069014 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Intimate Communications by : Gilbert Herdt
Book excerpt: 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.
