alice walker
anthropology
barbara g myerhoff
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chinese women
cultural politics
ella cara deloria
elsie clews parsons
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ethnography
feminist anthropology
feminist ethnography
gender studies
jewish identity
margaret mead
minority discourses
morality
mourning dove
participant observation
politics of representation
positionality
postcolonial feminism
postcolonialism
race and gender
racial history
ruth benedict
ruth landes
sexual division of labor
sexual politics
theater
women of color
zora neale hurston
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- ISBN 9780520202085
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of women studying women? And how have gender, race, class, and nationality been scripted into the canon? Through autobiography, fiction, historical analysis, experimental essays, and criticism, the contributors offer exciting responses to these questions. Several pieces reinvestigate the work of key women anthropologists like Elsie Clews Parsons, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict, while others reevaluate the writings of women of color like Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Deloria, and Alice Walker. Some selections explore how sexual politics help to determine what gets written and what is valued in the anthropological canon. Other pieces explore new forms of feminist ethnography that 'write culture' experimentally, thereby challenging prevailing, male-biased anthropological models.
Ruth Behar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and the author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story (1993). Deborah Gordon is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Wichita State University.
