Anthropology and autobiography / edited by Judith Okely and Helen Callaway
1992, 1st edition. London : Routledge. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #323029
ISBN: 0415051894
Physical description: xiv, 252 p.: ill.; 23 cm. Notes: "The chapters in this book emerge from the Association of Social Anthropologists' Annual Conference held at the University of York in 1989"-Preface. Anthropology & autobiography - cover title.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Anthropology and autobiography: participatory experience and embodied knowledge / Judith Okely; Ethnography and experience: gender implications in fieldwork and texts / Helen Callaway; Automythologies and the reconstruction of ageing / Paul Spencer; Spirits and sex: a Swahili informant and his diary / Pat Caplan; Putting out the life: from biography to ideology among the Earth People / Roland Littlewood; Racism, terror and the production of Australian auto/biographies / Julie Marcus; Writing ethnography: state of the art / Kirsten Hastrup; Autobiography, anthropology and the experience of Indonesia / C. W. Watson; Changing places and altered perspectives: research on a Greek Island in the 1960's and in the 1980's / Margaret E. Kenna; The paradox of friendship in the field: analysis of a long-term Anglo-Japanese relationship / Joy Hendry; Ali and me: an essay in street-corner anthropology / Malcolm Crick; From affect to analysis: the biography of an interaction in an English village / Nigel Rapport; Tense in ethnography: some practical considerations / John Davis; Self-concious anthropology / Anthony P. Cohen. Subjects: Autobiography.
Ethnology Authorship. Ethnology Biographical methods. Primary data collecting Social anthropology. Genre: Autobiography. Biographies. Illustrated.
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