A look at sexuality in anthropological fieldwork. The author looks at how the anthropologists sexual identity in their 'home' society affects the kind of sexuality they are allowed to express in other cultures.

Notes on contributors, Preface, Introduction The sexual life of anthropologists: erotic subjectivity and ethnographic work, 1 Lovers in the field: sex, dominance, and the female anthropologist, 2 Falling in love with an-Other lesbian: reflections on identity in fieldwork, 3 The penetrating intellect: on being white, straight, and male in Korea, 4 Walking the fire line: the erotic dimension of the fieldwork experience, 5 Tricks, friends, and lovers: erotic encounters in the field, 6 My 'chastity belt': avoiding seduction in Tonga, 7 Fear and loving in the West Indies: research from the heart (as well as the head), 8 Rape in the field: reflections from a survivor, Afterword Perspective and difference: sexualization, the field, and the ethnographer, Index