Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-161-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bryceson, Deborah Fahy

Okely, Judith

Webber, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: The Artistry of Social Life

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

PART I: FASHIONING IDENTITIES

Chapter 1. Changing Cultures, Changing Rooms: Fashioning Identities and Anthropological Research

Sharon Macdonald

Chapter 2. Identity at Play: Individuals, Characters, and Theatres of Action

Kirsten Hastrup

Chapter 3. Constructing Identities in a Post-Communist Society: Ethnic, National, and European

Zdzislaw Mach

Chapter 4. Making Sense of the Past: Reflections on Jewish Historical Consciousness

Jonathan Webber

Chapter 5. A Sense of People and Place: The Chapel and Language in Sustaining Welsh Identity

Gaynor Cohen

Chapter 6. Towards an Ethnography of Colleagueship

Hilary Callan

PART II: GENDER AGENCY AND NETWORKS

Chapter 7. Thinking the Unheard, Writing the Unwritten: Reflecting on Marginality, Ethnography, and Texts

Maria Jaschok in dialogue with Shui Jingjun

Chapter 8. The Women’s Movement: The Formative Years, 1850–1930

Cecillie Swaisland

Chapter 9. A Good Lady, Androgynous Angel, and Intrepid Woman: Maria Czaplicka in Feminist Profile

Grazyna Kubica

Chapter 10. ‘Ritual Sisters’ or Female Rulers? Gender and Chiefship Revisited in Southern Africa

Gina Buijs

Chapter 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

Chapter 12. What Women Really Want: Gender, Ethnicity, and Job Expectations on an Automobile Factory Assembly Line

Fiona Moore

Chapter 13. Can You Call This Fieldwork? September in Venice

Lidia D. Sciama

Chapter 14. Gendered Lessons in Ivory Towers

Judith Okely

AFTERWORDS: IN CELEBRATION OF SHIRLEY ARDENER

Gendering Oxford: Shirley Ardener and Cross-Cultural Research

Janette Davies and Jacqueline Waldren

Shirley Ardener’s Habitus

Jonathan Benthall

Circumstance, Personality, and Anthropology

Tamara Dragadze

Shirley in My Mind

Grazyna Kubica

Titi ikoli in the Academy

Sharon Macdonald

Going the Extra Mile

Sandra Burman

Her Powers of Persuasion

Fiona Moore

Shirley Ardener: Mentor and Friend

Paula Heinonen

The African Connection in Oxford

Gina Buijs

Shirley’s African Roots

Cecillie Swaisland

Returning to ‘The Mountain’

Peter Geschiere

Shirley’s Magic

Jonathan Webber

List of Published Works by Shirley Ardener

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Okely, Judith
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.

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

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

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