This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with the ways in which sex and gender are socially organized and conceptually construed in various cultures. Preface, Introduction: Accounting for Sexual Meanings, The Gender Revolution and the Transition from Bisexual Horde to Patrilocal Band: The Origins of Gender Hierarchy, The Cultural Organization of Gender, The Bow and the Burden Strap: A New Look at Institutionalized Homosexuality in Native North America, Transforming ''Natural'' Woman: Female Ritual Leaders and Gender Ideology Among Bimin-Kuskusmin, Self-Interest and the Social Good: Some Implications of Hagen Gender Imagery, Sexuality and Gender in Samoa: Conceptions and Missed Conceptions, Like Wounded Stags: Male Sexual Ideology in an Andalusian Town, Pigs and Women and the Men's House in Amazonia: An Analysis of Six Mundurucu Myths, The Political Contexts of Gender, Politics and Gender in Simple Societies, Women and Warriors and Patriarchs, Gender and Sexuality in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Polynesia and Some Comparative Implications, Index.