This thought-provoking new collection, Sexualities in Anthropology: A Reader offers insights into the diversity of human social beliefs and practices relating to sexuality in different times and in different cultures around the world.

• Substantial editorial introductions set each Part in context of the field, providing readers helpful background and explanatory notes.

• Presents a comprehensive collection of key historical and current readings in the social anthropology of sexuality
• Includes literature on both heterosexualities and same-sex sexualities
• Explores the key works and major debates of prominent scholars in the field, such as Mead, Malinowski, Newton, Herdt, and others
• Introduces readers to major theoretical developments (“essentialist” and “constructionist” positions)