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Article: Celibacy, Culture, and Society: the Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence. (Gender).
- Article from:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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SOBO, ELISA J. & SANDRA BELL (eds). Celibacy, culture, and society: the anthropology of sexual abstinence. x, 274 pp., bibliogrs. Madison: Univ. Wisconsin Press,2001 .$55.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper)
This very important book is the first anthropological attempt at problematizing celibacy from a cross-cultural perspective. Comprising an overview chapter and thirteen contributed chapters, the volume brings together a wide range of theoretical approaches to the practice of celibacy. In their introduction, the editors note the existence of an underlying core which links the various forms of celibacy historically and cross-culturally. They identify this to be sexuality's ...