Trafficking in Men: The Anthropology of Masculinity

Gutmann, Matthew C.

doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.385

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“…The first, mainly anthropological, contests the Anglo‐ and Eurocentric linkage between friendship and heightened individualism and explores how practices of friendship are embedded in wider societal context (Bell and Coleman ; Desai and Killick ). Male social enclaves in particular have received rich ethnographic attention (Gutmann ), with studies that addressed distinct practices of friendship as varied as café sociability (Vale de Almeida ) or reciprocal animal theft (Herzfeld ). Second, political philosophers have debated the ways that interpersonal friendship can serve as a normative model for civic or national attachments in modern society (Schwarzenbach ; Yack ).…”

Section: The Private–public Divide In Studies Of Friendship and Solidmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Architecture of Collective Intimacy: Masonic Friendships as a Model for Collective Attachments

Kaplan¹

2014

American Anthropologist

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Despite a growing recognition that interpersonal friendship informs wider forms of solidarity, there is little systematic analysis as to how community members extend the logic of friendship and intimacy to broader organizational and societal context. Masonic organizational practices provide a useful model for this inquiry. Drawing on an ethnographic study of contemporary Israeli Freemasonry, I examine the intersections of interpersonal, public, and collective intimacy in members' ritual activities and everyday life. The juxtaposition of mundane sociability and Masonic sacred rituals serves to rescale the distance between interpersonal friendship and communal solidarity.As members take on the roles of citizen, bureaucrat, priest, and president concomitantly, they partly collapse the distinctions between personal and collective ties, between the familiar and the revered. These intersections of intimacy are offered as a programmatic research strategy to study how institutionalized patterns of sociability inform civic and national attachments. [Freemasonry, friendship, solidarity, nationalism, fraternity, Israel] RESUMEN Pese al reconocimiento creciente que la amistad interpersonal informa maneras más amplias de solidaridad, hay muy poco análisis sistemático de cómo los miembros de la comunidad extienden la lógica de amistad e intimidad a contextos organizacionales y sociales más amplios. Prácticas de organizaciones masónicas proveen un modeloútil para esta investigación. Utilizando, un estudio etnográfico de la francmasonería israelí contemporánea, examino las intersecciones de la intimidad interpersonal, pública y colectiva en actividades rituales y la vida diaria de sus miembros. La sobreposición de sociabilidad mundana y rituales sagrados masónicos sirven para modificar la escala de la distancia entre la amistad interpersonal y la solidaridad comunal. En la medida en que los miembros toman los roles de ciudadano, burócrata, sacerdote, presidente simultáneamente, parcialmente colapsan las distinciones ente los lazos personales y colectivos, entre lo familiar y lo reverenciado. Estas intersecciones de intimidad son ofrecidas como una estrategia de investigación programática para estudiar cómo patrones institucionalizados de sociabilidad informan apegos cívicos y nacionales. [fracmasonería, amistad, solidaridad, sociedad civil, nacionalismo, fraternidad, Israel]

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Section: The Private–public Divide In Studies Of Friendship and Solidmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Architecture of Collective Intimacy: Masonic Friendships as a Model for Collective Attachments

Kaplan¹

2014

American Anthropologist

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“…Gutmann tells us that 'masculinities...have little meaning except in relation to women and female identities and practices' (Gutmann 1997). In the Diola case, giving birth marks full entrance into adult status for women, and men are not supposed to know anything about birth or women's reproduction.…”

Section: Boys Interrupted: Diola Male Personhood On the Body And In mentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Rice and Men

Davidson

2012

JSRNC

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When Diola Christians participated in their male initiation rites despite missionary objections, the argument was framed in theological terms. But Diola actions regarding this and other reUgious practices can only be understood within the wider frame of ecological changes that have challenged not only their agrarian UveUhoods but their very conceptions of personhood and processes of socialization. Given the decUne in rain, Diola males can no longer 'become men' in the rice paddies. By drawing out connections among Diola agrarian culture, ideals of masculinity, current environmental conditions, and missionary pressures, I argue that this incident-and, by implication, reUgious change more broadly-must be appreciated not only for its theological significance within Diola agrarian culture, but as enmeshed in contemporary dynamics of climate change.

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“…Arkin and Dobrofsky (1978) argue that values related to ideals of sexual potency are intensified in the masculine environment of the army, especially in regard to training new recruits (e.g., in the Marines penis size is often directly linked to power). Gutmann (1997) notes that ethnographers have concluded that few men actually equate their manhood with their genitalia; nonetheless, studies indicate that they are a favorite point of reference. Consequently, in the IDF as well, there is a conspicuous rhetoric of sexual performance and genital size.…”

Section: The Right Sexualitymentioning

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Imagined Masculinity: Body, Sexuality, and Family among Israeli Military Reserves

Sion¹,

Ben‐Ari

2009

Symbolic Interaction

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This article explores how middle-class Jewish men on reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces form a "proper" masculinity through humor and jokes. Reserve service creates a fruitful territory for researching four issues that have not been extensively studied in the literature on masculinities: the relation between gender and age, the periodic reaffirmation of masculinity along the life course, how women are perceived as sexual objects and how informal social pressure is placed on singles to marry and begin families, and how men not only are motivated by homophobia but use images of women and homosexuals to map and interpret power relations and competition between men.

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Trafficking in Men: The Anthropology of Masculinity

Cited by 250 publications

References 63 publications

The Architecture of Collective Intimacy: Masonic Friendships as a Model for Collective Attachments

The Architecture of Collective Intimacy: Masonic Friendships as a Model for Collective Attachments

Of Rice and Men

Imagined Masculinity: Body, Sexuality, and Family among Israeli Military Reserves

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