Auto/Ethnography

Rewriting the Self and the Social
Herausgeber: Reed-Danahay, Deborah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study 'others' ethnographically, this timely book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and those 'others' who are studied.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 139mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781859739709
• ISBN-10: 1859739709
• Artikelnr.: 22072374

Autorenporträt

Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Deborah Reed
Danahay, Introduction
Kay Warren, Narrating Cultural Resurgence: The Politics of Genre and Self
Representation for Mayan Activists
David Kideckel, Autoethnography as Political Resistance: A Case from Socialist Romania
Birgitta Svensson, The Power of Biography: Criminal Policy, Prison Life, and the Formation of Criminal Identities in the Swedish Welfare State
Michael Herzfeld, The Taming of Revolution: Intense Paradoxes of the Self
Henk Driessen, Lives Writ Large: Kabyle Self
Portraits and the Question of Identity
Deborah Reed
Danahay, Educational Narratives and the Ethnography of Autoethnography in Rural France
Alexandra Jaffe, Narrating the 'I' versus narrating the 'Isle': Life Histories and the Problem of Representation in Corsica
Pnina Motzafi
Haller, Writing 'Birthright': On Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation
Caroline Brettell, Blurred Genres and Blended Voices: Life History, Biography, Autobiography and the Autoethnography of Women's Lives