Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter presents conversations on berdache as spaces that produced queer modernities for Native and non-Native people in close relationship in the late twentieth century. The popularity of ...
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This chapter presents conversations on berdache as spaces that produced queer modernities for Native and non-Native people in close relationship in the late twentieth century. The popularity of berdache was heightened when gay and lesbian politics expressed progressive legacies of U.S. anthropology. Gay and lesbian and allied anthropologists in the 1970s began to evaluate sexual conservatism in anthropology and U.S. society by creating the Anthropological Research Group on Homosexuality (ARGOH), later renamed the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA). The twentieth-century scholars linked the anthropology of homosexuality to the pursuit of sexual minority politics within anthropology. U.S. anthropology of homosexuality correlated research on homosexuality to the activist defense of gay and lesbian anthropologists. ARGOH made sexual minority politics a basis for anthropological knowledge production by promoting research on homosexuality and defending gay and lesbian anthropologists.Less
This chapter presents conversations on berdache as spaces that produced queer modernities for Native and non-Native people in close relationship in the late twentieth century. The popularity of berdache was heightened when gay and lesbian politics expressed progressive legacies of U.S. anthropology. Gay and lesbian and allied anthropologists in the 1970s began to evaluate sexual conservatism in anthropology and U.S. society by creating the Anthropological Research Group on Homosexuality (ARGOH), later renamed the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA). The twentieth-century scholars linked the anthropology of homosexuality to the pursuit of sexual minority politics within anthropology. U.S. anthropology of homosexuality correlated research on homosexuality to the activist defense of gay and lesbian anthropologists. ARGOH made sexual minority politics a basis for anthropological knowledge production by promoting research on homosexuality and defending gay and lesbian anthropologists.
Scott Lauria Morgensen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656325
- eISBN:
- 9781452946306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656325.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter explores how non-Native gay counterculturists pursued multiple desires for queer indigeneity that, while contested by antiracist critique, confronted their settler formation only in ...
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This chapter explores how non-Native gay counterculturists pursued multiple desires for queer indigeneity that, while contested by antiracist critique, confronted their settler formation only in relationship to Native gay and Two-Spirit men. Gay and lesbian counterculturists in back-to-the-land collectives across Canada and the United States inspired broader circulation of their rural practices. One of their lasting legacies is the Radical Faeries. Radical Faeries employ back-to-the-land principles to a mobile practice that made retreat to rural space a conduit for urban and itinerant people to realize portable truths. Radical Faerie culture privileged rural retreats as a way for non-Native gay men to liberate an Indigenous gay nature and incorporate it in their everyday lives.Less
This chapter explores how non-Native gay counterculturists pursued multiple desires for queer indigeneity that, while contested by antiracist critique, confronted their settler formation only in relationship to Native gay and Two-Spirit men. Gay and lesbian counterculturists in back-to-the-land collectives across Canada and the United States inspired broader circulation of their rural practices. One of their lasting legacies is the Radical Faeries. Radical Faeries employ back-to-the-land principles to a mobile practice that made retreat to rural space a conduit for urban and itinerant people to realize portable truths. Radical Faerie culture privileged rural retreats as a way for non-Native gay men to liberate an Indigenous gay nature and incorporate it in their everyday lives.
