Professor Kerridwen Luis has chosen "Rica 'tte Kanji!?" by Rica
Takashima as a textbook for Anthropology 166B at Brandeis University,
for the Spring 2006 semester. Professor Luis describes the class: "This

class will cover some (not all!) of the current ethnography dealing
with non-heteronormative sexualities cross-culturally. Why
"non-heteronormative" instead of "non-heterosexual?"  Well, the divide
between hetero- and homo- that Western culture tends to insist on may
not exist in other cultures. Since sexuality is complex, it is
difficult to apply our own assumptions and labels (such as "gay,
lesbian,  bisexual") to the desires, loves, and sexual activity of
other people-- boundaries may be more fluid  (or more rigid) and
identities differently constructed. Sexuality may even impact gender
and the body; the formation of identities in different cultural
contexts may be a two-way street.  This class will examine how those
identities are created, some of the vast array of diverse human
activity in this area, how the social sciences have handled this topic,

and how different perspectives, race, class, culture, and ethnicity all

influence how these matters are viewed."


Keridwen N. Luis is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Brandeis
University. Her study interests include folk conceptions of  culture
and culture theory, women's studies, gender studies, nonheternormative
sexualities, intentional communities, consciously created culture,
ghost story narratives and belief, personhood, agency and identity.


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