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Transgender is front and center of the “culture wars” that are raging in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Yet transgender people of one form or another have existed for a long time in many societies of the world. This class will focus on the lives of transgender people in selected non-Western societies, focusing in particular on transgender people in Tonga (Pacific Islands), among whom Niko Besnier has conducted fieldwork since 1994. The class will explorethe insights we can gain from these other contexts while also avoiding exoticization and romanticization.
Niko Besnier, Ph.D. is a socio-cultural and linguistic anthropologist, and the author or editor of ten books. He has taught at the University of Illinois, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, UCLA, and the University of Amsterdam, and currently is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
Cancellations are non-refundable within 48 hours of this event.
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