Anthropology of Sex
ANTH-288-01
SUNY Geneseo
- Semester
- Summer 2026
- Instructor
- Irene Keating
- Start Date
- 06-29-2026
- Total Credits
- 3
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This course is cross-listed with WGST 205. This course explores how sex, sexuality, and sexual identities are shaped by culture, power, biology, and history across societies. Using a biocultural lens, students will examine how different communities define desire, intimacy, reproduction, gender roles, and sexual morality. Drawing on classic and contemporary anthropological research- from Marjorie Shostak's fieldwork among foragers of the Kalahari Desert to Roger Lancaster's examination of same-sex desire in Nicaragua- the course investigates how sexual norms are socially constructed and politically regulated. Using case studies from both industrialized and non-industrialized societies, we will examine marriage practices, kinship patterns, LGBTQ+ communities, indigenous gender variance, sex workers, alternative sexualities, and the evolution of human sexual behavior. This course provides a rigorous, ethnographically grounded understanding of one of the most universal yet variable dimensions of human life.
Course Area: Anthropology
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Dates: 06-29-2026 - 08-07-2026
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