Order Descriptionread and provide a critical evaluation of one ethnography from the recommended list (see end of the syllabus). This will be a 3-5 page paper in length and must cover the entirety of the book. Formatting guidelines include 1” margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing. All submissions will be
ETHNOGRAPHIES

Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman. Marjorie Shostak (Electronic)
Male Daughters, Female Husbands: gender and sex in African society. Ifi Amaduime (Electronic)
Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel. Pat Kelly (Electronic)
Mema’s House: on transvestites, queens, and machos. Annick Prieur. (Electronic)
Migrating Genders: westernization, migration, and Samoan Fa’afafine. Johanna Schmidt. (Electronic)
The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Culture. Gloria Wekker (Electronic)
Queer Ricans: cultures and sexualities in the diaspora. Lawrence M. La Fountain-Stokes (Electronic)
Fertility and Pleasure Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa, Japan. William Lindsey (Electronic)
Gender Diversity in Indonesia. Sharyn Graham Davies (Electronic)
The Gay Archipelago: sexuality and nation in Indonesia. Tom Boellstorff. (Electronic)
Caribbean Pleasure Industry: tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Mark Padilla (Electronic)
Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity. Afsaneh Najmabadi. (Electronic)
Hypersexuality and Headscarves: race, sex, and citizenship in the new Germany. Damani Partridge (Electronic)
Black Beauty: aesthetics, stylization, and politics. Shirley Anne Tate (Electronic)
With respect to sex: negotiating hijra identity in South India. Reddy Gayatri (Library)
Neither man nor woman: the hijras of India. Serena Nanda (Library)
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: mental illness in rural Ireland. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (library)