ABSTRACTBut Isn't It " Sexual " ? The Freudian Slip beneath the Ethnographie GazeIn this paper. I apply some of the concerns and cautions expressed in recent writing about sex and gender to Korean shaman rituals as a specifie problem of ethnographie interpretation and to make a plea for precision lest a hasty labeling of ritual or performance elements as " sexual " or " erotic " foreclose more complex and context-specific interpretations. I begin with a description of some of the ways in which my own writing on Korean shamans has been misinterpreted.While most immediately concerned with the readings that Western audience can impose upon a gendered ethnographie text. I shall also consider représentations of shamans" sexuality in Korean popular culture and shaman discourses about the sexuality of men in an improvisational ritual text. This enterprise is distinct from that of characterizing the sum of shamans' activities as innately " sexual ".Key words : Kendall. shamanism. dance. sexuality. method. Korea