Latin American Male Homosexualities

Type

Book

Authors

Murray ( Stephen O. Murray )

ISBN 10

0826316581

ISBN 13

9780826316585

Tags

Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Psychology, Culture, Latin American, Anthropology, LGBT Studies

Description

This anthropological volume examines Latin American male homosexualities from theoretical, critical, ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and lexicological perspectives. The authors discuss male homosexualities in Spanish-speaking societies, in Brazil, and in indigenous societies in relation to family, society, culture, politics, economy, and ethnicity. They discuss homosexuality in pre-Columbian indigenous societies and in colonial and modern Latin America. Contributors explore wide-ranging issues such as homosexual categorization, machismo and homosexuality, the activo-pasivo cultural dichotomy, the gay image in Chicano fiction, male homosexuality and Afro-Brazilian possession cults, the gay movement and human rights, and others.

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