Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312240134
ISBN-10: 0312240139
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: XV, 271 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:2002
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0312240139
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: XV, 271 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:2002
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction; D.L.Hodgson PART I: CONSUMPTION AND DESIRE Auditioning for the Chorus Line: Gender, Youth and the Consumption of Modernity in Thailand; M.B.Mills Acadas and Fertilizer Girls: Young Nigerian Women and the Romance of Middle Class Modernity; M.L.Bastian PART II: ALTERNATIVE MODERNITIES The Strength in the Song: Muslim Personhood, Audible Capital, and Women's Performance of the Haj; B.M.Cooper 'Once Intrepid Warriors: Modernity and the Production of Maasai Masculinities; D.L.Hodgson PART III: 'MODERN' FAMILIES Mamitis and the Traumas of Development in a Colonia Popular of Mexico City; M.C.Gutmann Growing Girls/Closing Circles: Limits on the Spaces of Knowing in Rural Sudan and US Cities; C.Katz PART IV: ENGAGING CAPITAL AND THE STATE Mining Men: Chile Exploratory Company and the Politics of Copper, Culture and Gender, 1921-1971; J.Finn Goudui and the State: Constructing Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Two Cosmopolitan Areas of Contemporary China; E.Zhang
Recenzii
These stunningly wide-ranging explorations of the experiences of communities from China to Chile,Africa to the Americas, are grounded in the best kind of ethnography: serious, sustained, and leavened with historical imagination. - Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University
Notă biografică
DOROTHY L. HODGSON teaches anthropology at Rutgers University, where she is an active member of the Center for African Studies and Women's Studies Program. She is the author of 'Once Intrepid Warriors': Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development, editor of Rethinking Pastoralism in Africa: Gender, Culture and the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, and co-editor of 'Wicked' Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Her articles have appeared in Identities, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ethnology, Journal of African History, Canadian Journal of African Studies and Nomadic Peoples. She is currently completing a book that examines female experiences and expressions of spirituality and power in the context of Catholic evangelization efforts.