Originally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became
a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of
sexuality and sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews,
together with the analysis of historical and literary texts, anthropologist Richard Parker
mapped out the multiple cultural systems that structure gender, sexuality, and erotic
practices in Brazil, and helped to open up a new wave of social science research on sexuality.

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