Tom Boellstorff is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia and a coeditor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language, as well as the editor of American Anthropologist. To learn more about Tom Boellstorff’s work, visit his website.

“A Coincidence of Desires responds to the imperative in queer studies to resituate the field’s epistemology by asking new questions about the relations between language, religion, sexuality, knowledge, and time. Drawing on a host of ‘coincidences’ between queer studies and anthropology, and using his extensive ethnographic experience in Indonesia, Tom Boellstorff casts his case studies as theoretical meditations in compelling and unexpected ways.”-Robyn Wiegman, Duke University “By exploring different formulations of time in canonical anthropological texts, in queer theory, and in his own ethnography on Indonesia, Tom Boellstorff challenges and reconfigures conventional anthropological and queer understandings of temporality. By focusing on‘coincidence’-the temporal simultaneity of two events-Boellstorff destabilizes more traditional notions of linear, hierarchical time that structure a range of hegemonic dualities, including male/female and modern/traditional. Boellstorff’s nuanced treatment of ‘coincidence’ ultimately demonstrates the productive potential for a new interdisciplinarity that brings anthropology and queer theory into dialog around questions of gender, sexuality, modernity, and temporality.”-Megan Sinnott, author of Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand “This major study reflects a mature consideration of Boellstorff’s decade and a half of ethnographic research. . . . Boellstorff is indeed to be praised for a study that draws solidly on Indonesia-based research to speak to analytical issues that are relevant well beyond that country’s borders.” - Peter Jackson (Intersections)

• Acknowledgments ixA Note on Indonesian Terms and Italicization xiiiINTRODUCTION: Queering Disciplines in Time 11. Zines and Zones of Desire 352. Warias, National Transvestites 783. Gay Language, Registering Belonging 1144. Between Religion and Desire 1395. The Emergence of Political Homophobia 1616. Comparatively Queer in Southeast Asia 181Notes 219References 235Index 269

Tom Boellstorff is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia and a coeditor of Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language, as well as the editor of American Anthropologist. To learn more about Tom Boellstorff’s work, visit his website.

“A Coincidence of Desires responds to the imperative in queer studies to resituate the field’s epistemology by asking new questions about the relations between language, religion, sexuality, knowledge, and time. Drawing on a host of ‘coincidences’ between queer studies and anthropology, and using his extensive ethnographic experience in Indonesia, Tom Boellstorff casts his case studies as theoretical meditations in compelling and unexpected ways.”-Robyn Wiegman, Duke University “By exploring different formulations of time in canonical anthropological texts, in queer theory, and in his own ethnography on Indonesia, Tom Boellstorff challenges and reconfigures conventional anthropological and queer understandings of temporality. By focusing on‘coincidence’-the temporal simultaneity of two events-Boellstorff destabilizes more traditional notions of linear, hierarchical time that structure a range of hegemonic dualities, including male/female and modern/traditional. Boellstorff’s nuanced treatment of ‘coincidence’ ultimately demonstrates the productive potential for a new interdisciplinarity that brings anthropology and queer theory into dialog around questions of gender, sexuality, modernity, and temporality.”-Megan Sinnott, author of Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand “This major study reflects a mature consideration of Boellstorff’s decade and a half of ethnographic research. . . . Boellstorff is indeed to be praised for a study that draws solidly on Indonesia-based research to speak to analytical issues that are relevant well beyond that country’s borders.” - Peter Jackson (Intersections)

• Acknowledgments ixA Note on Indonesian Terms and Italicization xiiiINTRODUCTION: Queering Disciplines in Time 11. Zines and Zones of Desire 352. Warias, National Transvestites 783. Gay Language, Registering Belonging 1144. Between Religion and Desire 1395. The Emergence of Political Homophobia 1616. Comparatively Queer in Southeast Asia 181Notes 219References 235Index 269