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Gilbert Herdt

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Gilbert H. Herdt (born February 24, 1949) is Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and a Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies and National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University. [1]

19 relations: Clinical ethnography, Donald Tuzin, Early infanticidal childrearing, Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why, Gender role, Herdt, Hinduism and LGBT topics, List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: H, List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1997, National Sexuality Resource Center, Oedipus in the Trobriands, Psychological anthropology, Richard Shweder, Sambia people, Sambia Sexual Culture, Same-sex relationship, Sexology, Sexual Preference (book), 22nd Lambda Literary Awards.

Clinical ethnography

Clinical ethnography is a term first used by Gilbert Herdt and Robert Stoller in a series of papers in the 1980s.

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Donald Tuzin

Donald F. Tuzin (June 14, 1945 – April 15, 2007) was a social anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work on the Ilahita Arapesh, a horticultural people living in northeast lowland New Guinea, and for comparative studies of gender and sexuality within Melanesia.

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Early infanticidal childrearing

Early infanticidal childrearing is a term used in the study of psychohistory that refers to infanticide in paleolithic, pre-historical, and historical hunter-gatherer tribes or societies.

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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why

Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation (2010; second edition 2016) is a book by the neuroscientist Simon LeVay, in which the author discusses scientific research on sexual orientation that in his view suggests that homosexuality and heterosexuality are products of the interactions between sex hormones and the developing brain, which predispose people's minds toward masculinity or femininity.

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Gender role

A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.

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Herdt

Herdt is a surname.

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Hinduism and LGBT topics

Hindu views of homosexuality and, in general, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) issues, are diverse and different Hindu groups have distinct views.

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List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people: H

Parent article: List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people; Siblings: This is a partial list of confirmed famous people who were or are gay, lesbian or bisexual.

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1997

List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1997.

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National Sexuality Resource Center

The National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) is a San Francisco-based organization which advocates the positive representation of human sexuality, creates educational content, and provides training about human sexuality.

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Oedipus in the Trobriands

Oedipus in the Trobriands is a 1982 book about the Oedipus complex by the anthropologist Melford Spiro, in which the author criticizes the research of Bronislaw Malinowski on the Trobriand Islanders.

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Psychological anthropology

Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.

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Richard Shweder

Richard Allan Shweder (born 1945) is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural psychology.

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Sambia people

The Sambia people are a tribe of mountain-dwelling, hunting and horticultural people who inhabit the fringes of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, and are extensively described by the American anthropologist Gilbert Herdt.

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Sambia Sexual Culture

Sambia Sexual Culture: Essays from the Field is a 1999 book about the Sambia people and their sexual practices by the anthropologist Gilbert Herdt.

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Same-sex relationship

A same-sex relationship is a relationship between persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic homosocially-close relationships.

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Sexology

Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors and functions.

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Sexual Preference (book)

Sexual Preference: Its Development in Men and Women (1981) is a book about the development of sexual orientation by the psychologist Alan P. Bell and the sociologists Martin S. Weinberg and Sue Kiefer Hammersmith, in which the authors reevaluate what were at the time of its publication widely held ideas about the origins of heterosexuality and homosexuality, sometimes rejecting entirely the factors proposed as causes, and in other cases concluding that their importance had been exaggerated.

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22nd Lambda Literary Awards

The 22nd Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2010, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2009.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Herdt

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