Own or Other Culture

By Judith Okely

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415115132
• ISBN13: 9780415115131
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"