256 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 *... Read more
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
Biography
Judith Okely
