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Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences


Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences

Paperback by Golde, Peggy

Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences

£27.00

ISBN:
9780520054226
Publication Date:
28 Jul 1986
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of California Press
Pages:
408 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 20 - 28 May 2024
Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences

Description

What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? Here we see highly trained and qualified women anthropologists examining their own efforts to live and work in alien cultures in many parts of the world. New chapters have been added to this ground-breaking volume, and each contributor is, in one way or another, a pioneer. All have chosen to devote their lives and energies to the understanding of worlds not their own. All have felt it important to explain what they do, why they do it, and how they feel about their work. Cultures vary widely in their perception of a woman engaged in anthropological field work. Each of these women has had to deal with the influence of her gender, as well as the subject of her study, on the mechanics of establishing a living-working relationship with people of another culture. The diversity of their responses to the presence of a foreign woman at work in their midst gives the book an invaluable cross-cultural perspective, as does the great variety of reactions and strategies on the part of the authors themselves. Besides providing rare insight into field work in general, "Women in the Field" mirrors the difficulties and delights of any person thrust into an unfamiliar culture.

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition PEGGY GOLDE Introduction JEAN BRIGGS Kapluna Daughter LAURA THOMPSON Exploring American Indian Communities in Depth PEGGY GOLDE Odyssey of Encounter LAURA NADER From Anguish to Exultation RUTH LANDES A Woman Anthropologist in Brazil HELEN CODERE Field Work in Rwanda, 1959-1960 NIARA SUDARKASA (nee GLORIA A. MARSHALL) In a World of Women: Field Work in a Yoruba Community ERNESTINE FRIEDL Field Work in a Greek Village CORA DUBOIS Studies in an Indian Town HAZEL HITSON WEIDMAN On Ambivalence and the Field ANN FISCHER Field Work in Five Cultures MARGARET MEAD Field Work in the Pacific Islands, 1925-1967 DIANE C. FREEDMAN Wife, Widow, Woman: Roles of an Anthropologist in a Transylvanian Village RENA LEDERMAN The Return of Redwoman: Field Work in Highland New Guinea Selected Bibliography, compiled by Srila Sen Supplemental Selected Bibliography, compiled by Stephen E. MacLeod

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