Beauty and Power

Mark Johnson University of Hull

'This book is a path-breaking ethnographic study of the culture of transgender males...[and] much more than a study of Southeast Asian sex/gender patterns, being a finely nuanced account of how minority ethnic, religious and gender identities are constituted in terms of multiple sets of relations. [...] Johnson's book marks an important step forward in research on Southeast Asia.'Canberra Anthropology'Sensitive ethnography can (itals) be accomplished, as Mark Johnson aptly demonstrates. His ethnography serves as a vehicle for the voices, concerns, and political agendas of a marginalized community.'American Anthropologist'The ... study is an important contribution to our knowledge of sexuality and of the region ... The monograph communicates a sense of the cultural complexity and violent history which characterize this part of the world.'Cambridge Anthology' ... this is a well-written, very detailed, and closely argued ethnography which is a significant contri

• 1  On Location(s): Cultural Crossings and Transformational Genders, 2  Gender, History and Power: The Politics of Identities and Identifications 3  On the Engenderment of Gay/Bantut Sexuality  4  Growing Up Gay: Narrative Themes in Gay Life-Histories  5  Beauty and Vulgarity: Occupational Reinventions and Aesthetic Circumscriptions of the Gay(Bantut  6  Imagining Love: Cartographies of Homosocialities and Transgenderal Identities  7  Anomalous Bodies: Transgenderings and Cultural Transformations