OWN OR OTHER CULTURE by Judith Okely ( 9780415115124 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

OWN OR OTHER CULTURE

By:

Judith Okely

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415115124

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9780415115124

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

4 April, 1996

Pages:

256

Description:

The view that fieldwork in the "West" is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already "known" is challenged in this text, which contains articles on a wide range of subjects from Gypsies to British boarding schools and feminism.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

5 line drawings, 8 b&w photographs

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Routledge

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