Pacific Homosexualities :

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Summary: A wealth of material on many places
Review: "Pacific" in the title is an understatement. There is a very long series of accounts of Siberian sex-crossing shamans, a fascinating chapter on ardent Buddhist warriors in ancient Korea, and of pederastic relationships in Australian aboriginal societies, in addition to rich descriptions of different kinds of homosexual relations on islands in the Pacific, past and present. Japan and Tahiti are the islands with the most extensive discussion. Some of this material was in an earlier book by the author, but he has added discussion of contemprary Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia to the mostly anthropological literature synthesized in OCEANIC HOMOSEXUALITIES, an out-of-print 1992 book.

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Summary: How not to do cross-cultural work on homosexuality
Review: This book is a very trite, simplistic compilation of other people's work, plus some pieces by the editor (who seems to presents himself as the author), based on no first-hand acquaintance with the problems at hand.