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Don Kulick's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Don Kulick is a Swedish anthropologist and linguist who is the professor of anthropology at Uppsala University. Kulick works within the frameworks of both cultural and linguistic anthropology, and has carried out field work in Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Italy and Sweden. Kulick is also known for his extensive fieldwork on the Tayap people and their language in Gapun village of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Language and Sexuality (2003) (616)
Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998) (422)
Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork (2003) (236)
Gay and Lesbian Language (2000) (228)
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession (2005) (135)
The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1997) (101)
Homophobias : lust and loathing across time and space (2009) (94)
Four Hundred Thousand Swedish Perverts (2005) (94)
Anger, Gender, Language Shift and the Politics of Revelation in a Papua New Guinean Village (1992) (79)
Sex in the New Europe (2003) (76)
Introduction The Sexual Life of Anthropologists: Erotic Subjectivity and Ethnographic Work (2003) (66)
:Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry (2008) (62)
The Language and Sexuality Reader (2006) (59)
Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement (2015) (59)
Transgender and Language: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for the Future (1999) (58)
The importance of what gets left out (2005) (57)
Speaking as a Woman: Structure and Gender in Domestic Arguments in a New Guinea Village (1993) (56)
Can There Be an Anthropology of Homophobia (2009) (54)
Christianity, cargo and ideas of self : Patterns of literacy in a Papua New Guinean village (1990) (47)
Introduction: language and desire in theory and practice (2003) (41)
Rambo's Wife Saves the Day: Subjugating the Gaze and Subverting the Narrative in a Papua New Guinean Swamp (2008) (36)
Heroes from hell: representations of rascals' in a Papua New Guinean village (1993) (35)
Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia. (1998) (30)
Theory in Furs (2006) (30)
Causing a Commotion: Public Scandal as Resistance Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1996) (29)
Language and Sexuality: Frontmatter (2003) (29)
:The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts (2009) (29)
Scandalous Acts: The Politics of Shame Among Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes (2003) (25)
Echoing images: The construction of savagery among Papua new Guinean villagers (1992) (23)
Language and Desire (2014) (18)
Animais gordos e a dissoluo da fronteira entre as espcies (2009) (15)
Code-switching in Gapun: Social and linguistic aspects of language use in a language shifting community (1990) (14)
Fe/male Trouble: The Unsettling Place of Lesbians in the Self-images of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes (1998) (14)
Human–Animal Communication* (2017) (14)
Review of Megan B. McCullough a Jessica A. Hardin, eds. “Reconstructing Obesity: the meaning of measures and the measure of meanings” (2015) (14)
Transsexuality, Transvestism, and Transgender (2001) (13)
A man in the house : The boyfriends of Brazilian travesti prostitutes (1997) (13)
When Privacy and Secrecy Collapse into One Another, Bad Things Can Happen (2015) (12)
The problem of speaking for others redux : insistence on disclosure and the ethics of engagement (2017) (10)
Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies (2014) (9)
Progression & regression in language: Growing up monolingual in a multilingual community: how language socialization patterns are leading to language shift in Gapun (Papua New Guinea) (1994) (9)
Transgender in Latin America: Persons, Practices and Meanings (1998) (8)
A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (2019) (6)
The Empty Place: Poetry, Space and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. JAMES F. WEINER (1994) (6)
Having head and showing knowledge : language shift, Christianity and notions of self in a Papua New Guinean village (1990) (5)
Lovers in the Field: Sex, Dominance, and the Female Anthropologist (2003) (5)
Editorial note: Summing up and starting anew (1996) (4)
A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap (2019) (4)
Identity crisis ? (2015) (2)
Homosexual behavior, culture and gender in Papua New Guinea* (1985) (2)
Thinking Sex/Thinking Gender: Introduction (2004) (2)
Language and Sexuality: Looking beyond identity: language and desire (2003) (2)
Vulnerable erotic subjects (2019) (2)
Language and Sexuality: What has gender got to do with sex? Language, heterosexuality and heteronormativity (2003) (1)
Gender Politics (2008) (1)
Merely sociological: Merely sociological (2014) (1)
Multilingual Margins (2019) (1)
When Animals Talk Back (2021) (1)
Just Talk: Gossip, Meetings, and Power in a Papua New Guinea Village. KAREN J. BRISON (1994) (1)
Language and Sexuality: Sexuality as identity: gay and lesbian language (2003) (1)
Coming like animals. Animal orgasm and interspecies domination (2017) (1)
Penetration Sex in the New Europe : The Criminalization of Clients and Swedish Fear of (2012) (0)
Muscle and Blood: Erotic Fantasy in Theory and Practice (2015) (0)
Book Review: From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Society.By Jacobo Schifter. Harrington Park Press, New York, 1999, 155 pp., $39.95 (hardcover), $14.95 (paperback) (2002) (0)
Language and Sexuality: Notes (2003) (0)
The Subject of Sex (2015) (0)
Language and Sexuality: Preface (2003) (0)
Paying for Sexual Services (2015) (0)
Little wooden coffins the disposal of foetal material in Swedish hospitals and its significance for abortion imagery and abortion rights (1995) (0)
Code-switching in Gapun (1990) (0)
EDITOR'S NOTE (2006) (0)
Warts and All (2001) (0)
Language and Sexuality: Bibliography (2003) (0)
Book review (2008) (0)
Book Review: Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan, The Anthropology of Sex (2012) (0)
Engaging anthropology (2020) (0)
The contributors (1987) (0)
Book Review: Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (2006) (0)
Book Review: Holly Wardlow, Wayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 284 pp. ISBN 0—520—24560—1 (2008) (0)
Transgressive sex: subversion and control in erotic encounters – Edited by Hastings Donnan & Fiona Magowan (2011) (0)
New introduction to reprint of the article “The gender of Brazilian transgendered prostitutes” (2017) (0)
Is It Monologic? Is It Dialogic? What Difference Does It Make? (2017) (0)
Review. Communicating gender. S Romaine (1999) (0)
Language and Sexuality: Language and sexuality: theory, research and politics (2003) (0)
How to Impede and How to Facilitate the Erotic Lives of People with Disabilities (2015) (0)
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil. Kelly E. Hayes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiii + 295 pp., DVD, Slaves of the Saints. (2013) (0)
The Roots of Engagement (2015) (0)
Why the Difference (2015) (0)
Strange Enemies: Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounter in Amazonia by Aparecida Vilaça (2011) (0)
Transgender Sex Work in Brazil: Historico-Cultural Perspectives (2018) (0)
The Devil Is in the Details. (2023) (0)
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge. Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, 280 pp. $26.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-0384-7. (2021) (0)
Disability and Sexuality—Who Cares? (2015) (0)
The Contributors (1998) (0)
Language and Sexuality: Making connections (2003) (0)
On the vicissitudes of publishing, and the riskiness of humor (2020) (0)
Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings M. B. McCullough and J. A. Hardin (eds) New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. viii + 245 pp. figures, table, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-1782381419. Price US$90.00 (Hc.) (2015) (0)
Cool Heads and Hot Hearts (2008) (0)
Language and Sexuality: Talking sex and thinking sex : the linguistic and discursive construction of sexuality (2003) (0)
Sex workers need no moral crusades (2007) (0)

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