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Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists »

Authors: Ellen Lewin (Editor), William L. Leap
ISBN-13: 9780252065187, ISBN-10: 0252065182
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: April 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Not Given to Personal Disclosure	31
2	Rites of Passing	49
3	Cast among Outcastes: Interpreting Sexual Orientation, Racial, and Gender Identity in the Yemen Arab Republic	58
4	Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork	70
5	Traveling Woman: Conducting a Fieldwork Project on Gender Variance ad Homosexuality among North American Indians	86
6	Confessions of a Reformed Grant Hustler	111
7	Studying Gay English: How I Got Here from There	128
8	Coming Home: The Journey of a Gay Ethnographer in the Years of the Plague	147
9	Constructing an Ethnohistory of the Buffalo Lesbian Community: Reflexivity, Dialogue, and Politics	171
10	Writing Queer Cultures: An Impossible Possibility?	200
11	My Best Informant's Dress: The Erotic Equation in Fieldwork	212
12	Male Homosexuality in Guatemala: Possible Insights and Certain Confusions from Sleeping with the Natives	236
13	Out of the Closet and into Print: Sexual Identity in the Textual Field	261
14	Requiem for a Street Fighter	274
	Afterword	287
	Contributors	309
	Index	313