Space, Text, and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya (Mappings: Society/Theory/Space)

By Henrietta L. Moore

Book Overview

As well as being a major anthropological study of the Marakwet, Space, Text and Gender strikingly illustrates how the idea of a cultural text can aid the analysis of ethnographic material. Dr Moore... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898628253
• ISBN13: 9780898628258
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

a study of culture change

I enjoyed this book. The author analyzes Marakwet society by looking at organization of space in their houses (traditionally round in shape), and how this relates to gender roles. She notes how these relationships change with modernization. This is a good case study of how women in Third World societies are affected by globalization. Her approach is both economic and symbolic -- some of the early chapters on the analysis of space harken back to Bourdieu's study of the Kabyle house.