Identity and Networks: Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Edited by: Deborah Fahy Bryceson , Judith Okely and Jonathan Webber

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381983

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About this book

Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for friendship, collegiality, knowledge creation, national unity, or emergence of leadership? How is social life constructed as a collective endeavour? Does the means towards sociability become its end? And what can be said about the agency and collegiality of women? The inspiration for examining these conundrums is the work and persona of Shirley Ardener, to whom the volume is dedicated.

Contributors: Jonathan Benthall, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Gina Buijs, Sandra Burman, Hilary Callan, Gaynor Cohen, Janette Davies, Tamara Dragadze, Ronnie Frankenberg, Peter Geschiere, Kirsten Hastrup, Paula Heinonen, Maria Jaschok, Grazyna Kubica, Rhian Loudon, Sharon Macdonald, Zdzislaw Mach, Fiona Moore, Judith Okely, Lidia D. Sciama, Shui Jingjun, Cecillie Swaisland, Jacqueline Waldren, Jonathan Webber.

Author / Editor information

Deborah Fahy Bryceson, a social geographer, is a Research Associate at the International Gender Studies and African Studies Centres, Oxford University.

Judith Okely, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Hull University, is Deputy Director of the International Gender Studies Centre, Oxford University, and Honorary Associate, Oxford Brookes University.

Jonathan Webber, a social anthropologist, holds the UNESCO Chair in Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Deborah Fahy Bryceson, a social geographer, is a Research Associate at the International Gender Studies and African Studies Centres, Oxford University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION THE ARTISTRY OF SOCIAL LIFE Deborah Fahy Bryceson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I FASHIONING IDENTITIES
1 CHANGING CULTURES, CHANGING ROOMS: FASHIONING IDENTITIES AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH Sharon Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2 IDENTITY AT PLAY: INDIVIDUALS, CHARACTERS, AND THEATRES OF ACTION Kirsten Hastrup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN A POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETY: ETHNIC, NATIONAL, AND EUROPEAN Zdzisław Mach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4 MAKING SENSE OF THE PAST: REFLECTIONS ON JEWISH HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS Jonathan Webber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5 A SENSE OF PEOPLE AND PLACE: THE CHAPEL AND LANGUAGE IN SUSTAINING WELSH IDENTITY Gaynor Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6 TOWARDS AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COLLEAGUESHIP Hilary Callan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
PART II GENDER AGENCY AND NETWORKS
7 THINKING THE UNHEARD, WRITING THE UNWRITTEN: REFLECTING ON MARGINALITY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND TEXTS Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8 THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT: THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1850–1930 Cecillie Swaisland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9 A GOOD LADY, ANDROGYNOUS ANGEL, AND INTREPID WOMAN: MARIA CZAPLICKA IN FEMINIST PROFILE Grażyna Kubica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
10 ‘RITUAL SISTERS’ OR FEMALE RULERS? GENDER AND CHIEFSHIP REVISITED IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Gina Buijs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
11 REVOLTING, REVOLUTIONARY, AND REBELLIOUS WOMEN: SYMBOLIC DISRUPTION OF TRADITIONAL FEMININITY AND THE LIBERATION OF FEMINEITY AND OTHER MUTED IDENTITIES Rhian Loudon and Ronnie Frankenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
12 WHAT WOMEN REALLY WANT: GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND JOB EXPECTATIONS ON AN AUTOMOBILE FACTORY ASSEMBLY LINE Fiona Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
13 CAN YOU CALL THIS FIELDWORK? SEPTEMBER IN VENICE Lidia D. Sciama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
14 GENDERED LESSONS IN IVORY TOWERS Judith Okely Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
AFTERWORDS IN CELEBRATION OF SHIRLEY ARDENER
GENDERING OXFORD: SHIRLEY ARDENER AND CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Janette Davies and Jacqueline Waldren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
SHIRLEY ARDENER’S HABITUS Jonathan Benthall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
CIRCUMSTANCE, PERSONALITY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY Tamara Dragadze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
SHIRLEY IN MY MIND Grażyna Kubica Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
TITI IKOLI IN THE ACADEMY Sharon Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
GOING THE EXTRA MILE Sandra Burman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
HER POWERS OF PERSUASION Fiona Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
SHIRLEY ARDENER: MENTOR AND FRIEND Paula Heinonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
THE AFRICAN CONNECTION IN OXFORD Gina Buijs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
SHIRLEY’S AFRICAN ROOTS Cecillie Swaisland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
RETURNING TO ‘THE MOUNTAIN’ Peter Geschiere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
SHIRLEY’S MAGIC Jonathan Webber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
LIST OF PUBLISHEDWORKS BY SHIRLEY ARDENER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 316
Keywords: Gender Studies and Sexuality; Theory and Methodology; Sociology

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Published: March 1, 2007
ISBN: 9781782381983