Own or Other Culture

by Okely,Judith

• ISBN13: 9780415115131
• ISBN10: 0415115132
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-05-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Own or Other Culturechallenges 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. Including a number of pioneering articles in social anthropology written over a period of twenty years, this book discusses selected themes such as questions of reflexivity and autobiography, anthropology in Europe, the cultural location of the anthropologist and feminism in anthropology. The introduction also places the work in its original context and in the light of recent developments and controversies in the discipline. Illustrated with photographs,Own or Other Cultureis written in an accessible and vivid style. It covers subjects ranging from the author's own boarding school -- revealing a British exotica and colonial comparisons, to how Gypsies, treating non-Gypsies as the "other", act to create or manipulate cultural difference.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Field in the Home Counties: Double Vision and Dismantled Identity

The Self and Scientism

Trading Stereotypes

Gypsy Women: models in conflict

Fortune-Tellers: Fakes or Therapists

Women Readers: Other Utopias and own Bodily Knowledge

Girls' Bodies: the Curriculum of the Unconscious

Privilege, Schooled and Finished: Boarding Education for Girls

Re-reading The Second Sex

Defiant Moments: Gender, Resistance and Individuals

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