Hill's "Transvestites among the whites", 1943
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Hill's anthropological study of Navaho humor includes a section on "Humor Based on the Unfamiliar Actions of Foreigners." Hill reports that the clothing of white people is a subject for comment:
Once during a ceremonial which was attended by an unusual number of tourists, one of the older [Navaho] men remarked, "There must be a great many more transvestites among the whites than among the Navaho because so many white women wear trousers.[1]
References
Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976) pg. 325.
- ↑ W. W. Hill, "... Navaho Humor," General Studies in Anthropology, no. 9 (Menasha, wts.: George Banta Publishing, 1943), p. 12. Also see Nancy Oestreich Lurl, "Winnebago Berdache," American Anthropologist vol. 55 (1953), p. 708-12.
