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Title Out in the field : reflections of lesbian and gay anthropologists / edited by Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Preface / Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap -- Introduction / Ellen Lewin and William L. Leap -- 1. Not Given to Personal Disclosure / Geoffrey Burkhart -- 2. Rites of Passing / Liz Goodman -- 3. Cast among Outcastes: Interpreting Sexual Orientation, Racial, and Gender Identity in the Yemen Arab Republic / Delores M. Walters -- 4. Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork / Walter L. Williams -- 5. Traveling Woman: Conducting a Fieldwork Project on Gender Variance ad Homosexuality among North American Indians / Sabine Lang -- 6. Confessions of a Reformed Grant Hustler / Ellen Lewin -- 7. Studying Gay English: How I Got Here from There / William L. Leap -- 8. Coming Home: The Journey of a Gay Ethnographer in the Years of the Plague / Ralph Bolton -- 9. Constructing an Ethnohistory of the Buffalo Lesbian Community: Reflexivity, Dialogue, and Politics / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis -- 10. Writing Queer Cultures: An Impossible Possibility? / Will Roscoe
11. My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork / Esther Newton -- 12. Male Homosexuality in Guatemala: Possible Insights and Certain Confusions from Sleeping with the Natives / Stephen O. Murray -- 13. Out of the Closet and into Print: Sexual Identity in the Textual Field / James Wafer -- 14. Requiem for a Street Fighter / Kath Weston -- Afterword / Sue-Ellen Jacobs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Gay anthropologists.
Lesbian anthropologists.
Author Leap, William.
Lewin, Ellen.
LC no. 95032456
ISBN 025202219X (acid-free paper)
0252065182 (paperback: acid-free paper)