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.
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Widely cited reference, but deserves a mixed review,
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This review is from: Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture (Paperback)
This book is one of the most widely cited and recommended among anthropologists. People in other disciplines may come away wondering why. The book emphasizes the importance of depth interviewing and Herdt gives much credit to Stoller (a psychiatrist) for his assistance. People trained in clinical interviewing or qualitative depth interviews will give much of the book a "so what's new" response, while those without these backgrounds may find it more illuminating. Regardless, the book is overlong and the esoteric sexual rituals of Herdt's study population become rather repetitious and boring, although the individuals he studied are themselves, vivid and interesting.
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Gilbert Herdt & Robert Stoller
Intimate Communications: Erotics and the Study of Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990) 467 pages This book should have been called Sambia Sex: An Investigation of Male Sexual Phases in New Guinea. An anthropologist and a psychoanalyst do extensive and intensive interviews of Sambia men (and one woman) to understand the male pattern of passing thru various phases of sexual behavior--first (as boys) with young men, then (as young bachelors) with younger boys, & finally with wives. How do they manage to change their sex-scripts? More books along these lines will be discovered on the Internet: "SEXOLOGY---SEX-SCRIPTS---BEST BOOKS". Search the these exact words. James Leonard Park, author of Imprinted Sexual Fantasies: A New Key for Sexology.
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