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Global Desirings and Translocal Loves: Transgendering and Same‐Sex Sexualities in the Southern Philippines
Author(s) -
Johnson Mark
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1998.25.4.695
Subject(s) - human sexuality , gender studies , sociology , locale (computer software) , transactional sex , context (archaeology) , trope (literature) , diversity (politics) , anthropology , geography , demography , research methodology , art , literature , population , archaeology , computer science , operating system
This article explores male transgendering and same‐sex sexualities in the southern Philippines. In particular, the article focuses on the translocal context of nonmainstream genders and sexual identities. I describe a range of homosexual encounters and elaborate on transactional scenarios, each of which has significant implications for the way in which the respective partners are gendered. In addition to these transactional forms, I discuss the various real and imagined worlds with which they are associated and within which they are set. The article thus challenges the trope of cultural particularity in anthropological accounts of gender and sexual diversity, arguing that gender and sexual identities are the product of relations that extend beyond any particular locale , [gender, sexuality, translocality, cartographies, cultural imagination]