ABSTRACT
Sex is not a topic that has received a great deal of attention in anthropologist’s accounts of their fieldwork. As Warren (1988) points out, few researchers broach the subject of their own sexuality in the field, perhaps because the personal and intimate nature of this matter might undermine the ‘objectivity’ of an ethnographic interpretation. Of those who do talk about sex, Warren says, men tend to talk about mutual sexual attractions and desires, while women refer more to the sexual advances they have encountered, usually unwanted. Apparently, then, references to sex in reflexive ethnographic accounts are also structured by a logic of gender.
