Out in the field reflections of lesbian and gay anthropologists

Out in the field: reflections of female homosexual and gay anthropologists

"Being LGBTQ+ in the field"

Sa'ed Atshan, Maura Finkelstein

Overseas Research 3d edition, 2020

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About the Book

A companion volume to Out in the Field,a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay experiences in anthropology, Out in Theorypresents lesbian and homosexual anthropology as a different specialization and addresses the theoretical issues that describe the emerging field. This compelling collection of essays details the scholarly and personal factors that affected the emergence of dyke and gay anthropology and speculates on the instructions it will take as it continues to flourish and diversify. Seeking to legitimize the field's scholarship and address issues in terminology, the essays also define the lesbian and gay anthropology's scope and subject matter and locate factors that separate it from the wider concerns of the profession.

Specific essays track the emergence of lesbian and male lover studies in social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and in various areas of anthropological activism. They also consider how feminist anthropology helped define the field and how transgendered experience, queer theory, and race and class studies are promoting new instructions of inquiry within homosexual woman and gay anthropology.

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I have devoted my career to examining a range of questions that center on motherhood, reproduction, and sexuality, particularly as these are played out in American cultures. In particular, I’m interested in how people in “impossible” cultural situations understand and manage their identities. Over the course of my career, I have completed studies that focus on low-income Latina immigrants in San Francisco, lesbian mothers, lesbian and gay promise ceremonies in the U.S., and gay fatherhood. My most recent project focuses on a coalition of Black LGBT Pentecostals in the U.S., with my book on the team, Filled with the Spirit: Sexuality, Gender and Drastic Inclusivity in a Inky Pentecostal Church Coalition, published by University of Chicago Press in 2018.

My labor is located at the juncture of feminist and cultural anthropology, and I have long been concerned with how women and members of sexual/gender minorities make sense of the multiple identities they derive from ethnicity, race, and class, sexual orientation, and parental status. In dyke and gay studies my work has focused on the construction o out in the field reflections of lesbian and gay anthropologists

About the Book

"Definitive and well-rounded. . . . Explores how anthropologists manage issues of identity and sexuality in field research and professional life. In an era when the field worker's positionality is critical to research and ethnographic writing, this insightful book has much to say to gay and vertical researchers alike." -- Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico

"Addresses sensitive, controversial, and tabooed subjects. . . . Out in the Field will be interpret by a variety of audiences, within and outside of anthropology." -- Jean Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lesbian and gay anthropologists inscribe candidly in Out in the Field about their analyze and personal experiences in conducting fieldwork, about the ethical and intellectual dilemmas they face in writing about womxn loving womxn or gay populations, and about the impact on their careers of doing lesbian/gay research.

The first volume in which lesbian and homosexual anthropologists discuss personal experiences, Out in the Field applications compelling illustrations of professional lives both closeted and out to colleagues and fieldwork informants. It also concerns aligning career goals with personal sexual prefe