Queer Anthropology
1. 
Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q)
by:
Esther Newton
3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings 2. 
Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
by:
Ellen Lewin
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 3. 
Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures
by:
Evelyn Blackwood
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 4. 
Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya
by:
George Paul Meiu
3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings 
6. 
The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora
by:
Gloria Wekker
4.25 avg rating — 117 ratings 7. 
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean
by:
Lyndon K. Gill
3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings 8. 
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
by:
David Valentine
3.98 avg rating — 291 ratings 
8. 
Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
13. 
Cherry Grove Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
by:
Esther Newton
4.01 avg rating — 70 ratings 13. 
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
15. 
Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures
by:
Margot Weiss
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 17. 
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
by:
Margot Weiss
3.72 avg rating — 125 ratings 17. 
Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment
by:
Rogers Orock
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
20. 
Queering the Middle: Race, Region, and a Queer Midwest (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2014) (Volume 20) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
20. 
Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya
by:
George Paul Meiu
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 22. 
Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (Sexual Cultures Book 9) 3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings
22. 
Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
24. 
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 792 ratings
24. 
Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession
by:
Thomas Hendriks
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 26. 
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by:
Gayle S. Rubin
4.44 avg rating — 157 ratings 
27. 
Life is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua 3.92 avg rating — 123 ratings
30. 
Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia
by:
Evelyn Blackwood
3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 
32. 
The Many Faces Of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches To Homosexual: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior
by:
Evelyn Blackwood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
34. 
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
36. 
iVenceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
by:
Jafari S. Allen
4.02 avg rating — 45 ratings 36. 
Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS
by:
Deborah B. Gould
4.28 avg rating — 159 ratings 38. 
There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
by:
Jafari S. Allen
4.45 avg rating — 20 ratings 38. 
Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China
by:
Lucetta Kam
3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings 
40. 
Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
by:
Don Kulick
4.01 avg rating — 669 ratings 42. 
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
by:
Vaibhav Saria
4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings 46. 
Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork
by:
Don Kulick
3.92 avg rating — 38 ratings 
48. 
Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism (Spiritual Phenomena) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
50. 
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
by:
Ana-Maurine Lara
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 
53. 
Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Ellen Lewin
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 55. 
Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language
by:
William L. Leap
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings 56. 
Flaming Souls: Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Social Change in Barbados 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
56. 
Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages
by:
William L. Leap
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
58. 
Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History
by:
William L. Leap
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 60. 
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books) 3.91 avg rating — 116 ratings
62. 
Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
by:
Lucinda Ramberg
4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings 62. 
Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
by:
Asli Zengin
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 64. 
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
by:
Noelle Stout
3.86 avg rating — 71 ratings 64. 
Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
by:
Bobby Benedicto
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 66. 
66. 
De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men
by:
Joseph Carrier
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 68. 
68. 
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (New Sexual Worlds Book 2)
by:
Kwame Edwin Otu
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 70. 
Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
by:
Naisargi N. Dave
4.24 avg rating — 49 ratings 70. 
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
by:
Omar Kasmani
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 
72. 
Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas
by:
Joseph C. Russo
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 74. 
74. 
Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-Us Border
by:
Sarah Luna
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings 76. 
76. 
Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices, and Investments after Marilyn Strathern (Theorizing Ethnography)
by:
Paul Boyce
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 78. 
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies
by:
B Camminga
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 79. 
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
by:
Tom Boellstorff
3.91 avg rating — 57 ratings 79. 
The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans- Medicine
by:
Eric Plemons
4.33 avg rating — 84 ratings 81. 
Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology
by:
Ellen Lewin
3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings 81. 
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Real Queer?: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
87. 
Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture
by:
Ellen Lewin
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 87. 
Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism
by:
Uriel Quesada
4.16 avg rating — 83 ratings 
89. 
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture 3.99 avg rating — 113 ratings
91. 
Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian / Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World
by:
Ellen Lewin
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 91. 
Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions: Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
93. 
Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatán
by:
Carter Wilson
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 95. 
The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti (NWSA / UIP First Book Prize)
by:
Erin L. Durban
4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 95. 
Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
by:
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
3.87 avg rating — 78 ratings 97. 
Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming
by:
Carly Thomsen
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 97. 
Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins
by:
Kath Weston
3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 99. 
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
