Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior
The Research on Homosexuality series:
Series Editor: John P. De Cecco, PhD, Director, Center for Research and Education in Sexuality, San Francisco State University, and Editor, Journal of Homosexuality.
Number 1
Homosexuality and the Law, edited by Donald C. Knutson, JD
Number 2
Historical Perspectives on Homosexuality, edited by Sal Licata, PhD, and Robert P. Petersen, PhD candidate.
Number 3
Nature and Causes of Homosexuality: A Philosophic and Scientific Inquiry, edited by Noretta Koertge, PhD
Number 4
Homosexuality & Psychotherapy: A Practitioners Handbook of Affirmative Models, edited by John C. Gonsiorek, PhD
Number 5
Alcoholism & Homosexuality, edited by Thomas O. Ziebold, PhD, and John Mongeon
Number 6
Literary Visions of Homosexuality, edited by Stuart Kellogg
Number 7
Homosexuality and Social Sex Roles, edited by Michael W. Ross, PhD
Number 8
Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues, edited by John P. De Cecco, PhD, and Michael G. Shively, MA
Number 9
Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Clinical Issues, edited by John P. De Cecco, PhD
Number 10
Homophobia: An Overview, edited by John P. De Cecco, PhD
Number 11
Bisexualities: Theory and Research, edited by Fritz Klein, MD, and Timothy J. Wolf, PhD
Number 12
Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior, edited by Evelyn Blackwood, PhD (cand.)
This series is published by The Haworth Press, Inc., under the editorial auspices of the Center for Research and Education in Sexuality, San Francisco State University, and the Journal of Homosexuality
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Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior has also been published as Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 11, Numbers 3/4, Summer 1985.
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Main entry under title:
Anthropology and homosexual behavior.
(Research on homosexuality; no. 12)
Also... published as Journal of homosexuality, volume 11, numbers 3/4, summer 1985T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. HomosexualityCross-cultural studies. 2. Sex roleCross-cultural studies. 3. Sex customsCross-cultural studies. I. Blackwood, Evelyn. II. Series: Research on homosexuality; v. 12.
GN484.35.A57 1986 306.766 85-17758
ISBN 0-86656-328-8
ISBN 0-86656-420-9 (pbk.)
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Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior
Journal of Homosexuality
Volume 11, Numbers 3/4
CONTENTS
John P. De Cecco, PhD
Joseph M. Carrier, PhD
Evelyn Blackwood, PhD (cand.)
Barry D. Adam, PhD
Serena Nanda, PhD
J. Patrick Gray, PhD
Andrea Sankar, PhD
Denyse Lockard, PhD (cand.)
Judith Gay, PhD
Clark L. Taylor, PhD, EdD
Peter Fry, PhD
Richard Parker, PhD (cand.)
Charles Callender, PhD
Lee M. Kochems, PhD (cand.)
David F. Greenberg, PhD
Walter L. Williams, PhD
Reviewed by Harriet Whitehead, PhD
Ana Villavicencio-Stoller, Abstracts Editor
The Journal of Homosexuality is devoted to theoretical, empirical, and historical research on homosexuality, heterosexuality, sexual identity, social sex roles, and the sexual relationships of both men and women. It was created to serve the allied disciplinary and professional groups represented by psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, biology, medicine, the humanities, and law. Its purposes are:
- to bring together, within one contemporary scholarly journal, theoretical empirical, and historical research on human sexuality, particularly sexual identity;
- to serve as a forum for scholarly research of heuristic value for the understanding of human sexuality, based not only in the more traditional social or biological sciences, but also in literature, history and philosophy;
- to explore the political, social, and moral implications of research on human sexuality for professionals, clinicians, social scientists, and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines and settings.
EDITOR
JOHN P. DE CECCO, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Human Sexuality and Director, Center for Research and Education in Sexuality (CERES), and Director, Human Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University
ABSTRACTS AND BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
ANA VILLAVICENCIO-STOLLER, Center for Research and Education in Sexuality, San Francisco State University
COPYEDITOR
NORMAN C. HOPPER, Center for Research and Education in Sexuality, San Francisco State University
FOUNDING EDITOR
CHARLES C. SILVERSTEIN, PhD, New York City
EDITORIAL BOARD
EVELYN BLACKWOOD, PhD (cand.), Anthropology, Stanford University
EDWARD BRONGERSMA, JD, Founder, Dr. Edward Brongersma Foundation, The Netherlands; Former Senator, Dutch National Parliament
ROGER BROWN, PhD, John Lindsley Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
VERN L. BULLOUGH, RN, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Natural and Social Sciences, State University College at Buffalo
ELI COLEMAN, PhD, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Education and Training, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota
LOUIS CROMPTON, PhD, Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
MARTIN DANNECKER, PhD, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Abteilung fur Sexualwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
JOSHUA DRESSLER, JD, Professor of Law, Wayne State University School of Law
LILLIAN FADERMAN, PhD, Distinguished Professor of English, California State University, Fresno
DOUGLAS FUTUYMA, PhD, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook
JOHN GAGNON, PhD, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook
KENT GERARD, PhD (cand.), History and Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
BERNARD GOLDSTEIN, PhD, Professor of Biology, San Francisco State University
ERWIN HAEBERLE, PhD, EdD, Director, Historical Research, Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco; Adjunct Professor of Human Sexuality status, San Francisco State University