A Coincidence of Desires ：Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia ( e-Duke books scholarly collection. )

Publication subTitle ：Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia

Publication series ：e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Author： Tom Boellstorff  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780822389538

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822339915

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822339748

Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology

Keyword： Male homosexuality -- Indonesia., Ethnology -- Indonesia., Gay men -- Indonesia -- Social conditions., Indonesia -- Social conditions.

Language： ENG

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In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. Drawing on these experiences, he provides several in-depth case studies, primarily concerning the lives of Indonesian men who term themselves gay (an Indonesian-language word that overlaps with, but does not correspond exactly to, the English word “gay”). These case studies put interdisciplinary research approaches into practice. They are preceded and followed by theoretical meditations on the most productive forms that collaborations between queer studies and anthropology might take. Boellstorff uses theories of time to ask how a model of “coincidence” might open up new possibilities for cooperation between the two disciplines. He also juxtaposes his own work with other scholars’ studies of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore to compare queer sexualities across Southeast Asia. In doing so, he asks how comparison might be understood as a queer project and how queerness might be understood as comparative.

The case studies contained in A Coincidence of Desires speak to questions about the relation of sexualities to nationalism, religion, and globalization. They include an examination

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Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Indonesian Terms and Italicization

Introduction: Queering Disciplines in Time

Zines and Zones of Desire

Warias, National Transvestites

Gay Language, Registering Belonging

Between Religion and Desire

The Emergence of Political Homophobia

Comparatively Queer in Southeast Asia

Notes

References

Index

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