1st Edition
Auto/ethnography Rewriting the Self and the Social
Edited By Deborah Reed-Danahay
Copyright 1997
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contribution to the growing dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. The... Read more
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
Biography
Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.
