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"While there has been increased attention to issues of sexuality in the Caribbean over the past decade, there continue to be very few in-depth ethnographic studies of sexual minorities in this region. A timely addition to the literature, Flaming Souls explores public discourses focusing on homosexuality and the everyday lives of gay men and 'queens'in contemporary Barbados.

In Martinique, self‐identified gay men often tell each other stories about gay communities in other societies. France and Martinique are central characters in these stories but their presence is largely negative: life in the former is criticized for its economic or racial hardships and life in the latter is criticized for homophobia, hypocrisy, and smallness, creating a frustrating catch‐22 for these men. However, in these narratives Quebec often emerges as an ideal destination of racial and sexual freedom. In this paper, I argue that Quebec is signified as utopic in terms that are antithetical and therefore profoundly connected to impressions of social life in France and Martinique. At the same time, however, I maintain that these narratives also reveal common threads in the African‐pan‐American diasporic experience. Furthermore, these men's experiences of "gay" life in other countries demonstrate their awareness of a "global gay" identity, albeit one that is commercially and ideologically centered in Euro‐American societies, [homosexuality, Martinique, transnationalism, diaspora, race]

Condor Qatay: Anthropology in Performance. Catherine J. Allen and Nathan Garner. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1997. 139 pp.

On the Emic Gesture: Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner, by Iracema Dulley. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction David -- 1 Displacing Homophobia -- 1 Can There Be an Anthropology of Homophobia? -- 2 Homophobia at New York's Gay Central -- 3 ''It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve'' -- 4 The Homosexualization of Pedophilia -- 5 Stolen Kisses -- 2 Transnational Homophobias -- 6 Not Quite Redemption Song -- 7 The Emergence of Political Homophobia in Indonesia -- 8 Homo Hauntings -- 9 Lucknow Noir -- Epilogue: What Is to Be (Un)Done? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index