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Difference between Descriptions of Kaguya-hime in Nara-ehon and Nara-emaki of Taketori Monogatari and those in Modern versions
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Development and Validation of a TPACK-integrated Instructional Design Model for Technology Integration : A Context of Nepalese Teacher Education Program
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The Direct, Indirect, and Conditional Effects of Intergroup Contact on Outgroup Evaluation among University Students in Myanmar
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Civilization in the case of a “Holy Servants”: Christianity as a civilization device
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Thinking about/with the Concept of “Sexuality”
Get PDFThis paper attempts to explore possibilities of how to utilize the concept
of “sexuality” in academic analyses and descriptions. From the perspective of
anthropology, the author seeks a way of using the concept for the purpose of
grasping the fluidity and poly-semantic nature of people’s everyday practices.
The second section of this essay discusses the relationships between the
three concepts of “sexuality,” “gender” and “sexual orientation.” By examining
Gayle Rubin’s influential essay “Thinking Sex,” the author emphasizes that
questions related to the concept of “sexuality” should not be limited to that of
“sexual orientation” in the narrow sense of the word.
The third section focusses on attempts to define the meaning of “sexuality”
more broadly as a concept of being sexual. The author classifies two types of
attempts, namely the “element enumerating definition” and a “relativistic
definition,” and goes on to examine an anthropological dispute over the
question whether a certain phenomenon was sexual or not, in order to point
out the difficulties of deciding whose definition of “sexual” counts, that is, who
the subject of that decision should be.
Section four, then, deals with the function of concepts used within
academic texts to describe people’s everyday practices. Making use of
anthropologist Marilyn Strathern’s insights, who re-conceptualized
anthropological research as a moment for extending the meaning of existing
concepts, the author points out that both queer studies and anthropology are
fields in which attempts have been made to update existing concepts and
terminology in unprecedented ways.
In the fifth and last section, the author suggests possible ways of academic
thinking “together with” the concept of “sexuality.” The author argues that in
order to grasp what it means to be sexual we need to constantly update and
expand our conceptualization of “sexuality” and understand it as momentary,
often short-termed, fluid “experiences” within oneself and between oneself
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