Anthropology & Sexual Morality

by Salazar, Carles

• ISBN13: 9781845450915
• ISBN10: 1845450914
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-15
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The history of sexual morality in Ireland has been traditionally associated with repression. In the last two decades, however, repression seems to have given way to its exact opposite. But where did this "repression" originate? And how can we account for this sudden and sweeping transformation in sexual mores? Based on solid ethnographic and historical analysis of sexual morality in rural Ireland, augmented by comparative data from Papua New Guinea, and being informed by from Freud's emblematic concept of repression, the author draws new conclusions that not only apply to the specific case of his Irish material but shed new light on the specific nature of an anthropological approach to the study of human societies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I: Approaches to Human Sexuality
1. Sex in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea	13	(9)
2. Freud and the Repressive Hypothesis	22	(10)
3. Foucault: Sex as Culture	32	(11)
Part II: Power, Meaning and Social Structure: an Irish Case-Study
4. Irish Sexual Morality and Family Systems	43	(13)
5. Functionalist Dilemmas	56	(17)
6. The Peculiarities of Irish Demography	73	(11)
7. Imagining Sexuality: History as a Cognitive System	84	(16)
8. Coercion and Meaning	100	(13)
9. Disciplinary Regimes in the History of Irish Sexuality	113
Part III: Anthropological Remarks
10. Clarifying the Culture Concept	129	(12)
11. Intersubjectivity Revisited	141	(16)
12. Subjectification and Interpretation	157	(14)
Conclusion	171	(10)
Bibliography	181	(10)
ndex	191