Gendered anthropology
In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology. Gendered Anthropology will be of particular value to undergraduates and lecturers in social anthropology and gender studies.
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- Full title :Gendered anthropology / edited by Teresa del Valle.
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In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology. Gendered Anthropology will be of particular value to undergraduates and lecturers in social anthropology and gender studies.
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- Publication Date:1993.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1993.
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- Description:1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1134926421, 9781134926428, 1280069406, 9781280069406, 9786610069408, 6610069409, 0203413237, 9780203413234, 0203316290, 9780203316290
- oclc:on1109068429
- LC Classification:GN479.65
- Dewey Decimal:305.3
Table of Contents
Cover; Gendered Anthropology; European Association of Social Anthropologists; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Uncomfortable Fields of Knowledge; A Divided Population: What is Good for Some is Irrelevant for Others; Genealogical Knowledge; Addressing Issues of Relevance to Ontemporary Society; The Problem of Distances; Inner Boundaries; Across Boundaries; Searching For Interpretations: Why the Contribution of Gender Studies is Ignored; Notes; 1: Is Sex to Gender as Race is to Ethnicity?; From Sex to Gender
From Race to Ethnicity and BackIs Sex to Gender as Race is to Ethnicity?; Gender, Race and Class; Notes; 2: The Study of Kinship; the Study of Person; A Study of Gender?; In the Beginning Was Kinship; Gendered Kinship?; Sacred Texts; From Kinship Studies to Person Studies; Sameness and Difference; Concluding Remarks; Notes; 3: The Illusion of Dualism in Samoa': Brothers-and-sisters' are not 'men-and-women'; The Frontier of the Sexes; Samoa; Gender; Two Levels; Different Examples; Same Questions; Conclusion; Notes
4: Blood, Sperm, Soul and the Mountain: Gender Relations, Kinship and Cosmovision …
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