Own or Other Culture / Edition 1

by Judith Okely

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415115124
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/04/1996
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Judith Okely

Table of Contents

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