ISBN:
0-415-05189-4
,
978-0-415-05189-7
,
0-203-45053-1 /E-Book
,
978-0-203-45053-6 /E-Book
ISSN:
0567-414X
Language:
English
Pages:
286 Seiten
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Illustration
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 29
Keywords:
Anthropologie Autobiographie
;
Autoethnographie
;
Ethnologe
;
Biographische Methode
;
Feldforschung
Abstract:
Anthropological writings by anthropologists in the field have long been a valuable tool to the profession. But until now, the theoretical implications of its use have not been fully explored. Anthropology and Autobiography provides unique insights into the fieldwork, autobiographical materials and/or textual critiques of anthropologists, many of whose ethnographies are already familiar. It considers the role of the anthropologist as fieldworker and writer, examining the ways in which nationality, age, gender, and personal history influence the anthropologist's behavior towards the individuals he is observing. This volume also contributes to debates about reflexivity and the political responsibility of the anthropologist, who, as a participant, has traditionally made only stylized appearances in the academic text. The contributors examine their work among peoples in Africa, Japan, the Caribbean, Greece, Shetland, England, indigenous Australia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. Autobiography is developed alongside political, intellectual, and historical changes. The anthropologists confront and examine issues of racism, reciprocity and friendships. Anthropology and Autobiography will appeal to anthropologists and social scientists interested in ethnographic approaches, the self, reflexivity, qualitative methodology, and the production of texts.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface / Judith Okely and Helen Callaway -- 1. Anthropology and autobiography: participatory experience and embodied knowledge / Judith Okely -- 2. Ethnography and experience: gender implications in fieldwork and text / Helen Callaway -- 3. Automythologies and the reconstruction of ageing / Paul Spencer -- 4. Spirits and sex: a Swahili informant and his diary / Pat Caplan -- 5. Putting out the life: from biography to ideology among the Earth People / Roland Littlewood -- 6. Racism, terror and the production of Australian auto/biographies / Julie Marcus -- 7. Writing ethnography: state of the art / Kirsten Hastrup -- 8. Autobiography, anthropology and the experience of Indonesia / C. W. Watson -- 9. Changing places and altered perspectives: research on a Greek island in the 60s and in the 80s / Margaret Kenna -- 10. The paradox of friendship in the field: analysis of a long-term Anglo-Japanese relationship / Joy Hendry -- 11. Ali and me: an essay in street corner anthropology / Malcom Crick -- 12. From affect to analysis: the biography of an interaction in an English village / Nigel Rapport -- 13. Tense in ethnography: some practical consideration / John Davis -- 14. Self-conscious anthropology / Anthony P. Cohen
Note:
Enthält 14 Beiträge"The chapters in this book emerge from the Association of Social Anthropologists' Annual Conference held at the University of York in 1989." (Preface)
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