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Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders among the Bugis of Indonesia

Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders among the Bugis of Indonesia The later fieldwork of Sharyn Graham Davies (Challenging Gender Norms: Five Genders among the Bugis of Indonesia, 2007) and Tom Boellstorff (The Gay Archipelago, 2005) is more ambitious than my effort from 1993. Read Sulwesi’s Fifth Gender by Sharyn Graham for a summary of the … Read more

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How might Sinclair’s masterpiece “The Jungle” be considered an ethnographic work in the Chicago school tradition

How might Sinclair’s masterpiece “The Jungle” be considered an ethnographic work in the Chicago school tradition How might Sinclair’s masterpiece “The Jungle” be considered an ethnographic work in the Chicago school tradition? Begin by providing a brief precis of the novel itself (Should not be any longer than one page) and then select passages or … Read more

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Consider the cross-cultural irony of the Sambia initiation ritual

Consider the cross-cultural irony of the Sambia initiation ritual Between Generations Consider the cross-cultural irony of the Sambia initiation ritual. Boys become men by fellating their elders and ingesting their semen. But the same homosexual act performed in industrial cultures may effectively feminize men. There may be an accompanying irony in ritual nose bleeding and menstruation as … Read more

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