Sex scholarship has a long history in anthropology, from the studies of voyeuristic Victorian gentlemen ethnographers, to more recent analyses of gay sex, trans

Accessible and highly engaging, The Anthropology of Sex is the fist work to critically synthesize over a century of comparative expertise, knowledge and underst

Addresses the conflict, contradictions and ambiguities that are often encountered in field research.

For centuries, classical scholars have intensely debated the "position of women" in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power, or were they lit