268 Pages
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Routledge
268 Pages
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Routledge
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Anthropological writings by anthropologists in the field have long been a valuable tool to the profession. But until now, the theoretical implications of its use have not been fully explored. Anthropology and Autobiography provides unique insights into the fieldwork, autobiographical materials and/or textual critiques of anthropologists, many of whose ethnographies are already familiar. It... Read more
Preface 1 Anthropology and autobiography: participatory experience and embodied knowledge 2 Ethnography and experience: gender implications in fieldwork and texts 3 Automythologies and the reconstruction of ageing 4 Spirits and sex: a Swahili informant and his diary 5 Putting out the life: from biography to ideology among the Earth People 6 Racism, terror and the production of Australian auto/Biographies 7 Writing ethnography: state of the art 8 Autobiography, anthropology and the experience of Indonesia 9 Changing places and altered perspectives: research on a Greek island in the 1960s and in the 1980s 10 The paradox of friendship in the field: analysis of a long-term Anglo–Japanese apanese relationship 11 Ali and me: an essay in street-corner anthropology 12 From affect to analysis: the biography of an interaction in an English village 13 Tense in ethnography: some practical considerations 14 Self-conscious anthropology
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Judith Okely, Helen Callaway
