ABSTRACT
The authors in this book examine the self in its many identities and phases, not as a mode of self-absorption or self-voyeurism, but as probings of personal experience in the examination of anthropological practice. Tracing the implications of gender, I look at the ways in which it defines our identities, and helps to shape the gathering of data and interpretations of other societies. Current feminist anthropology gives a central place to the analytical concept of gender as both cultural construct and social relation. Drawing from this scholarship,1 I turn it back reflexively to raise questions about selves as anthropologists.
