ABSTRACT
Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of the ethnographer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
Yes Virginia, there is a feminist ethnography 1
Reflections from three Australian fields*
chapter 2|19 pages
Fictive kinship or mistaken identity?
Fieldwork on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea
chapter 3|15 pages
Between autobiography and method
Being male, seeing myth and the analysis of structures of gender and sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji
chapter 8|15 pages
Breaching the wall of difference
Fieldwork and a personal journey to Srivaikuntam, Tamilnadu*
chapter 9|16 pages
Motherhood experienced and conceptualised
Changing images in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands
chapter 12|17 pages
The mouth that spoke a falsehood will later speak the truth
Going home to the field in Eastern Nigeria
chapter 14|19 pages
Gendered participation
Masculinity and fieldwork in a south London adolescent community*
chapter 15|14 pages
Sisters, parents, neighbours, friends
Reflections on fieldwork in North Catalonia (France)
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