Don Kulick: 3 books

Book cover of Travesti

Travesti

Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

by Don Kulick
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009

In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles,...
Book cover of A Death in the Rainforest

A Death in the Rainforest

How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

by Don Kulick
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019

**“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost),...
Book cover of Loneliness and Its Opposite

Loneliness and Its Opposite

Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement

by Don Kulick, Jens Rydström
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015

Few people these days would oppose making the public realm of space, social services and jobs accessible to women and men with disabilities. But what about access to the private realm of desire and sexuality? How can one also facilitate access to that, in ways that respect the integrity of disabled...
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