The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor

Jamake Highwater is a world-renowned mythologist and anthropologist who has focused primarily on the history and meaning of Native American art and lore. The Mythology of Transgression illuminates how the cultural history of male homosexuality is also the history of social transgression. Using myth, science, religion, literature, and popular culture, Highwater explicates how homosexual behavior and identity challenge much of how our world is ordered. Filled with startling and sometimes brilliant insights, The Mythology of Transgression is joyfully iconoclastic and shockingly relevant.