Contents Preface

• Foreword
• Breaking the Mirror: The Construction of Lesbianism and the Anthropological Discourse on Homosexuality
• Age, Structure, and Sexuality: Reflections on the Anthropological Evidence on Homosexual Relations
• The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role
• Growing Yams and Men: An Interpretation of Kimam Male Ritualized Homosexual Behavior
• Sisters and Brothers, Lovers and Enemies: Marriage Resistance in Southern Kwangtung
• The Lesbian Community: An Anthropological Approach
• “Mummies and Babies” and Friends and Lovers in Lesotho
• Mexican Male Homosexual Interaction in Public Contexts
• Male Homosexuality and Spirit Possession in Brazil
• Masculinity, Femininity, and Homosexuality: On the Anthropological Interpretation of Sexual Meanings in Brazil
• Men and Not-Men: Male Gender-Mixing Statuses and Homosexuality
• Why Was the Berdache Ridiculed?
• Persistence and Change in the Berdache Tradition Among Contemporary Lakota Indians