...: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Durham, NC: Duke University Press , 2007 . ix + 292 pp . Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture Lisa Rofel Durham, NC: Duke University Press , 2007 . ix + 251 pp . Imagining Transgender...

...Ara Wilson The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Princeton: Princeton University Press , 2005 . xiii + 282 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Ara Wilson is director of the Program in the Study of Sexualities at Duke University. Books...

...Scott Morgensen A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Durham, NC: Duke University Press , 2007 . xi + 292 pp . Duke University Press 2008 Scott Morgensen is assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies...

.... Books in Brief Queer Isles Ara Wilson The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 282 pp. Tom Boellstorff’s long-awaited ethnography, The Gay Archipelago, tackles core problems animating contemporary...

.... Books in Brief Queer Isles Ara Wilson The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 282 pp. Tom Boellstorff’s long-awaited ethnography, The Gay Archipelago, tackles core problems animating contemporary...

... in Brief Queer Isles Ara Wilson The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 282 pp. Tom Boellstorff’s long-awaited ethnography, The Gay Archipelago, tackles core problems animating contemporary transnational...

...Tom Boellstorff Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna 
 Matti Bunzl
 Berkeley: University of California Press , 2004 . xii + 292 pp . Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora 
 Martin F. Manalansan IV
 Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

...Tom Boellstorff Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 THE PERFECT PATH Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Jna 1997 ad for Ciputra Hotels that appeared in the Indonesian national airline’s in-flight magazine, a smiling Balinese dancer...

...Tom Boellstorff Duke University Press 2007 When Marriage Falls Queer Coincidences in Straight Time Tom Boellstorff I proffer this essay to a specific audience — those, like myself, with a commit- ment to both “queer theory” in some sense of the term and a critique of marriage...

... of research on Indonesian gay, male-to-female (MTF) transgender (waria), and lesbian (lesbi) cultures, Tom Boellstorff writes, “A frequent Western misunderstanding is that gay tourism or international gay organizations have played a significant role in the translocation of ‘gay’ subjectivi- ties...

... . . . the selection or interpretation of what [the anthropologist] ‘finds’ . . . the multiple ways in which ‘data-­bearers’ carry with them the histories of disci- plines.”3 For these reasons, I am not claiming, as Lorraine E. Herbst and Tom Boellstorff have recently argued in these pages...

... the American cult of the child; Geeta Patel calibrates the sexual politics of the global war economy in Sri Lanka; Biddick writes against the abjecting of Muslim martyrs; Tom Boellstorff interrogates the queer stance against gay marriage. The works in this special issue draw from...

... within the West- ern academy. Recent scholarship in queer anthropology has confronted the long- romanticized relationship between religion, ritual, and non- Western same- sex- desiring and/or gender nonconforming persons and now has, in the words of Tom Boellstorff (2007: 22), little patience...

... (2005): 221 – 42; Blackwood, “Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Desires: Tombois and Femmes in Indonesia” (unpublished manuscript). 25. See Blackwood, “Tombois”; and Blackwood, “Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Desires.” 26. Tom Boellstorff, The Gay...

... under significant pressure (see Rofel and Boellstorff in this issue).l5 Nevertheless, most historians, including most gay historians, and most literary critics still frame their subjects in a national field and rely on the internal dynamics of national histories to analyze and explain them.16...

... Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 AdouttL, Contridutor~ Tom Boellstorff is a Ph.D. candidate and acting instructor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. George Chauncey is professor of history and cochair of the Lesbian...

... Making Matters 199-230 Worse 231-52 Boellstorff, Tom Kulick, Don The Perfect Path: Gay Men, Marriage, Transgender and Language: Indonesia 475-510 A Review of the Literature and Chauncey, George...

..., provisionally titled “Doing Diversity: Racism and Educated Subjects,” as well as on a project exploring ideas about happiness in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics. Tom Boellstorff is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author...

... 2007 About the Contributors Kathleen Biddick is professor of history at Temple University. She is working on a book titled “Making Enemies: Exceptional Bodies and Sovereign Technologies.” Tom Boellstorff is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University...

... passé colonial: Le trio impossible?” In Je est un autre: Pour une identité-monde , edited by Le Bris Michel Rouaud Jean Skowronek Nathalie , 123 – 38 . Paris : Gallimard . Boellstorff Tom . 2007 . A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia . Durham...