1st Edition

Gendered Fields Women, Men and Ethnography

Edited By Diane Bell, Pat Caplan, Wazir Jahan Karim Copyright 1993

    Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of the ethnographer.

    Introduction 1, Diane Bell; intro2 Introduction 2, Pat Caplan; Chapter 1 ::, Diane Bell; Chapter 2 Fictive kinship or mistaken identity?, Martha Macintyre; Chapter 3 Between autobiography and method, Allen Abramson; Chapter 4 With moyang melur in Carey Island, Wazir Jahan Karim; Chapter 5 Facework of a female elder in a Lisu field, Thailand, Otome K. Hutheesing; Chapter 6 A hall of mirrors, Ingrid Rudie; Chapter 7 Among Khmer and Vietnamese refugee women in Thailand, Lisa Moore; Chapter 8 Breaching the wall of difference, Kamala Ganesh; Chapter 9 Motherhood experienced and conceptualised, Joke Schrijvers; Chapter 10 Perception, east and west, Penny Vera-Sanso; Chapter 11 Learning gender, Pat Caplan; Chapter 12 The mouth that spoke a falsehood will later speak the truth, Ifi Amadiume; Chapter 13 Sexuality and masculinity in fieldwork among Colombian blacks, Peter Wade; Chapter 14 Gendered Part Icipation, Les Back; Chapter 15 Sisters, parents, neighbours, friends, Oonagh O’Brien; Epilogue, Wazir Jahan Karim;

    Biography

    Edited by Bell, Diane; Caplan, Pat; Karim, Wazir Jahan