Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior (Research on homosexuality)

Rating:
Summary: Politically correct does not equal solid scholarship
Review: Some respected and well known social scientists have contributed to this volume. Nevertheless, I do not consider it a balanced perspective of this still controversial research area and I would not use it for any of the classes I teach. At some point in the future we will look back on this period of scholarship in anthropology and wonder why we struggled so hard to come up with popular answers when other conclusions were equally indicated. Solid social science steps outside the constraints of cultural popularity/political correctness at any given era. Yet, it is understandable that many of these papers do not. Alternative explanations do not easily find publication and are often derided by one's peers. At best, this book joins a growing pseudo-scientific literature about human sexual expression and the social and cultural environments in which it occurs.