Own or other culture
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Own or other culture
Routledge, 1996
- : pbk
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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