Stephen O. Murray

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Stephen O. Murray ( May 4, 1950 in Minnesota - August 27, 2019 in San Francisco ) was an American sociologist , anthropologist, and author .

Life

After graduating from high school, Murray studied at the James Madison Collage , Michigan State University . In 1975 he passed his master's degree in sociology from the University of Arizona and his doctorate , also in sociology, from the University of Toronto . He then studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1980 to 1982.

His work includes studies in sociolinguistics , the history of the social sciences, and extensive publications in the intersection of sociology and homosexuality . He dealt in particular with the regions of the United States, Mexico, Canada and Taiwan. Together with Will Roscoe , he wrote studies on homosexuality in sub-Saharan Africa and Islamic areas. Together with Regna Darnell he wrote a monograph series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology for the University of Nebraska Press .

Murray also published in the Journal of Homosexuality and Histories of Anthropology Annual , and wrote articles for the websites of GLBTQ , epinions.com and associatedcontent.com.

Fonts (selection)

  • Latin American Male Homosexualities , University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque NM 1995
  • American Gay , University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1996
  • Angkor Life , Bua Luang, Bangkok 1996
  • American Sociolinguistics. Theorists and Theory Groups , Philadelphia, 1998
  • Homosexualities , University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2000
  • together with Keelung Hong: Looking Through Taiwan. American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination , University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
  • together with Will Roscoe: Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature , New York University Press, New York 1997
  • together with Will Roscoe, Boy Wives and Female Husbands. Studies of African Homosexualities , St. Martin's Press , New York 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary: Stephen O. Murray. In: Bay Area Reporter . September 25, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Murray, Stephen O.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH 27th August 2019
Place of death San Francisco