Kolboy : denial, disgust, and the production of value in male sex work in the Philippines / Carlo Tadiar.

By:

Tadiar, Carlo [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2021.Description: 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:

9789715428545

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HQ 119.4 P6 .T335 2021

Contents:

Introduction.--Chapter One : Context.--Chapter Two : Flesh.--Chapter Three : Theory.--Chapter Four : Symbols.--Chapter Five : The chain of signifiers.--Chapter Six : Culture.--Conclusion.--Afterword.--References.--Index.--About the author.

Summary: This book explores the traditional terms of the commerce in sex in this locality as modern notions of sex, gender, and sexuality brought by intensified globalization impact them. Based on fieldwork among kolboy, Kolboy sketches intimate portraits of individuals engaged in the trade, their interactions with each other and their clientele. Simultaneously, it reflects back on the anthropological enterprise of capturing otherness by manifesting the evolutionary trope that underlies it and other instruments of modernity.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Filipiniana	NU BALIWAG	NU BALIWAG	SHS-Filipiniana	SHS-Filipiniana	FIL HQ 119.4 P6 .T335 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NUBSHS00002288

Includes reference and index.

This book explores the traditional terms of the commerce in sex in this locality as modern notions of sex, gender, and sexuality brought by intensified globalization impact them. Based on fieldwork among kolboy, Kolboy sketches intimate portraits of individuals engaged in the trade, their interactions with each other and their clientele. Simultaneously, it reflects back on the anthropological enterprise of capturing otherness by manifesting the evolutionary trope that underlies it and other instruments of modernity.

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