Anthropology

Fictions of Feminist Ethnography Kamala Visweswaran 1994 Spring

Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts which fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of “sisterhood” and the recovery of “lost” voices. In these essays about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled issues. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fiction.

Bad Aboriginal Art Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons Eric Michaels 1993 Fall

This is the account of the author‘s period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into broadcasting.

The Anti-Politics Machine Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho James Ferguson 1994 Spring

“Through a detailed case study of the Thaba-Tseka Development Project in Lesotho over the period 1975 to 1984, Ferguson exposes the discourse and the practice of 'development' to a highly explicit and critical scrutiny. . . . The importance of Ferguson's book is that it exerts a decisive wrench away from evaluation of the success or failure of development projects in their own terms and towards an analysis of what development does, who does it, and whom it actually benefits.” --Colin Murray, Man

Daughters of the Dreaming Diane Bell 1993 Fall

This new edition, which is based on research done in the 1970s, includes an epilogue in which Bell reflects on her original fieldwork from the perspective of the 1990s, examining the changes in the field and in feminist theory and practice.

A Passage to England Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home John Western 1992 Spring

Paternalism in the Japanese Economy Anthropological Studies of Oyabun-Kobun Patterns John W. Bennett and Iwao Ishino None

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