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It is currently fashionable, in the social sciences & the popular educated press, to see any assessment of a behavior as "abnormal" as representing nothing more than society's view that the behavior is undesirable. This interpretation is examined & found to be logically & empirically indefensible. All of the various causal explanations for homosexuality are examined; none now available can reasonably conclude that homosexuality is normal. Modified AA.

This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western culture area. The book as a whole indicates that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision in light of the Melanesian findings.

Intro -- Contensts -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality -- Part I. Before Homosexuality -- 2 Homosexual Relations in Kinship-Structured Societies -- 3 Inequality and the State: Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations -- 4 Early Civilizations: Variations on Homosexual Themes -- 5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World -- 6 Feudalism -- Part II. The Construction of Modern Homosexuality -- 7 Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures -- 8 The Rise of Market Economies -- 9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality -- 10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality -- 11 Gay Liberation -- Epilogue: Under the Sign of Sociology -- References -- Index.