Eros and Taboo: Sexuality and Gender among Native Americans and ...
Eros and Taboo: Sexuality and Gender among Native Americans and ...
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Eros and Taboo analyzes erotic practices and gender relations among various indigenous populations in North America. Are these societies more open to the pleasure principle and sexual urges than Western societies? The book focuses in particular on the tension that exists among Native Americans and Inuit between, on the one hand, a seemingly permissive sexuality that can acquire a public and uninhibited character and, on the other, strictly codified practices, often associated with prohibitions. Sex therefore appears as a revealing element of the social. Several themes are examined from this perspective, including the differentiation of the sexes and cross-dressing, constraint and consent in unions and marriages, the place of sex in language and symbolic thought, sexual relations between indigenous women and men of European origin since the 16th century, and the role played by missionaries in the confrontation of Europeans with indigenous mores. The book is published in homage to Denys Delâge. With the collaboration of Marie-Pierre Bousquet, Denys Delâge, Raymond J. DeMallie, Louis-Jacques Dorais, Claude Gélinas, Anny Morissette, Murielle Nagy, Douglas R. Parks, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure and Olivier Servais. Gilles Havard is a historian, research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and member of the Mondes Américains laboratory (Paris). A specialist in the history of relations between Native Americans and Europeans in North America, he has notably published Empire et métissages (Septentrion and PUPS, 2003) and co-written Histoire de l'Amérique française (Champs histoire, 2008). Frédéric Laugrand is an anthropologist, professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval and the current director of the journal Anthropologie et sociétés. He has co-written numerous articles and books with Jarich Oosten, most recently Inuit Shamanism and Christianity. Transitions and Transformations (MQUP, 2010) and Hunters, Predators and Prey. Inuit Perceptions of Animals (Berghahn Books, 2014).
