Judith Okely

Own or Other Culture (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Own or Other Culture challenges those anthropologists who suggest that fieldwork in the 'West' is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already 'known' to either Westerners or non Westerners. Revealing some pioneering articles in social anthropology written over a period of twenty years, Judith Okely discusses selected themes which include:
* questions of reflexivity and autobiography
* anthropology in Europe
* the cultural location of the anthropologist
* feminism in anthropology. Illustrated with photographs, Own or Other Culture covers subjects ranging from the author's own boarding school revealing a British exotica and colonial comparisons, to how Gypsies, who treat non-Gypsies as the 'other', act to create or manipulate cultural difference.
Feminist anthropology is developed in a reassessment of de Beauvoir and Kaberry while gender and bodily experience is explored in the face of popular demands by women readers for cross-cultural examples.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134821495
• Artikelnr.: 42710826

Autorenporträt

Judith Okely

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Field in the Home Counties: Double Vision and Dismantled Identity
2. The Self and Scientism
3. Trading Stereotypes
4. Gypsy Women: models in conflict
5. Fortune-Tellers: Fakes or Therapists
6. Women Readers: Other Utopias and own Bodily Knowledge
7. Girls' Bodies: the Curriculum of the Unconscious
8. Privilege, Schooled and Finished: Boarding Education for Girls
9. Re-reading The Second Sex
10. Defiant Moments: Gender, Resistance and Individuals