Stephen C Murray

Pacific Homosexualities

This book provides a wealth of information about a variety of male and female homosexual roles in societies of Pacific islands (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines), aboriginal Australia and Siberia, plus Korea and Indonesia. Murray shows recurrent patterning and provide...

A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens

In this groundbreaking work, Stephen Murray seizes a rare opportunity to explore the relationship between verbal and visual culture by presenting a sermon that may have been preached during the second half of the thirteenth century in or near the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens, whose sculptural p...

Plotting Gothic

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of the Gothic as a ser...

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature

The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and...

Mapping the Labyrinth

Delving into the heartland of rural Australia, uncovering secrets of the communal mind, resting at waypoints of oblique eccentric observation. Love, madness, social engineering, feline companionship, mechanics of voice hearing and dissociative identity disorder - all these and more challenging subje...

Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities

Claims concerning the presence and status of homosexuality in historic African cultures have become central points of contention in debates among contemporary African Americans. Some of those involved in the debate have even asserted that the original languages of Africa contained no words for gay o...

Tracey Emin: My Photo Album

My Photo Album is a journey through the life of British artist Tracey Emin using photographs from her personal collection. Edited from the albums she has kept from an early age, this visual autobiography contains some amazing images: Tracey sharing a pram as a baby with her twin Paul, her bus-pass p...

American Gay

American Gay

Homosexualities

Homosexualities

Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities

Heterogender Homosexuality in Honduras

Pacific Homosexualities

Looking Through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination

Stephen Murray (actor)

This article is for the actor. For the BMX rider, see Stephen Murray (BMX rider). Stephen Umfreville Hay Murray (6 September 1912 31 March 1983) was an...

Stephen Murray

Stephen, Steven, Steve or Stevie Murray may refer to: Stephen Murray (actor) (19121983), English cinema, radio, theatre and television actor; Stephen Murray...

Stephen Murray (BMX rider)

Stephen Murray (born 9 January 1980 in Newcastle, England) is a former BMX Dirt rider. On Friday 22 June 2007 at the Dew Action Sports Tour BMX Dirt Finals...