Peter. Pecker. Wiener. Dick. Schlong. Penis. no matter what we elect to name it, the penis is greater than only a physique half. This A-to-Z encyclopedia explores the cultural meanings, interpretations, and actions linked to the penis over the centuries and throughout cultures.
Scholars, activists, researchers and clinicians delve into the penis in antiquity, in artwork, in faith, in politics, in media, in tune, and within the cultural mind's eye. They research the penis as an issue, a fetishized commodity, a weapon, an item of play. Penile décor and fashions—from piercings to koteka—are handled with equivalent dignity. clarification of universal scientific phrases and not-so-common subcultural practices upload to the huge scope of the booklet. Taken jointly, the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis offers clean, considerate, and wide-ranging perception into this malleable, significant physique part.
Preview of Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis PDF
Similar Anthropology books
Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
"If you must comprehend what anthropology is, examine what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: a truly brief creation. This attractive assessment of the sector combines an obtainable account of a few of the discipline's guiding rules and method with plentiful examples and illustrations of anthropologists at paintings.
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
The parable of the peace-loving "noble savage" is power and pernicious. certainly, for the final fifty years, most well-liked and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric war was once infrequent, innocuous, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a sickness of civilized societies by myself. Prehistoric struggle, in line with this view, used to be little greater than a ritualized online game, the place casualties have been restricted and the results of aggression rather gentle.
The Origin and Evolution of Cultures (Evolution and Cognition)
Oxford offers, in a single handy and coherently geared up quantity, 20 influential yet beforehand quite inaccessible articles that shape the spine of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking paintings on evolution and tradition. Their interdisciplinary study is predicated on notions. First, that tradition is essential for realizing human habit; in contrast to different organisms, socially transmitted ideals, attitudes, and values seriously impression our habit.
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and spiritual practices. nonetheless, few people may perhaps establish all of our day-by-day and festal ritual behaviors, less clarify them to an interloper. equally, as a result of number of actions that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory but, in lots of methods, both valid interpretations, ritual turns out to elude any systematic historic and comparative scrutiny.
- Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
- Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth
Additional info for Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis
Whites, blacks, and others—men and girls alike—take the black male penis way more heavily, consciously or unconsciously harboring myths that turn into the realities in a few minds: that each one black males are freakishly endowed, that they're Energizer-bunny sexual machines, that they're sexual specialists. beautiful to heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual audience, this culturally layered advent to the porn web site Submittoblack. blogspot highlights either the animalization of black male our bodies due to penile endowment and capitalizing at the perpetuating fable that black males are sexually promiscuous and nondiscriminating: “If you think all this immense black cock factor is simply a fantasy and white men have a similar immense cocks as black dudes, simply have a look at this gallery right here.