Anthropology and Sexual Morality

Carles Salazar is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Lleida. He gained his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge, and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland and Catalonia. His main research has been focused on different aspects of Irish society and culture: rural economy, religious beliefs, family organization and history of sexual morality. He has also done research on the history of anthropology and on the cultural understanding of biomedicine and genetics among infertile couples in Barcelona. His latest publications include the book A Sentimental Economy (Berghahn Books, 1996).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: APPROACHES TO HUMAN SEXUALITYChapter 1. Sex in the Highlands of Papua New GuineaChapter 2. Freud and the Repressive HypothesisChapter 3. Foucault: Sex as CulturePART II: POWER, MEANING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE: AN IRISH CASE-STUDYChapter 4. Irish Sexual Morality and Family SystemsChapter 5. Functionalist DilemmasChapter 6. The Peculiarities of Irish DemographyChapter 7. Imagining Sexuality: History as a Cognitive SystemChapter 8. Coercion and MeaningChapter 9. Disciplinary Regimes in the History of Irish SexualityPART III: ANTHROPOLOGICAL REMARKSChapter 10. Clarifying the Culture ConceptChapter 11. Intersubjectivity RevisitedChapter 12. Subjectification and InterpretationConclusionBibliographyIndex