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Title:

Author:

Okely, Judith, 1941-

ISBN:

9780415115124

9780415115131

Personal Author:

Okely, Judith, 1941-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Physical Description:

x, 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

1. Fieldwork 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 and their bodies: The curriculum of the unconscious -- 8. Privileged, schooled and finished: Boarding education for girls -- 9. Re-reading The Second Sex -- 10. Defiant moments: Gender, resistance and individuals.

Subject Term:

Anthropology -- Field work.

Anthropology -- Philosophy.

Feminist anthropology.

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Summary

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.