Overview
- Focuses on the role of gender in ethnographic writing
- Contributes to the vein of anthropological research on how anthropologists represent their work and engage in the processes of textual production
- Reveals gendered divisions of labor throughout the ethnographic process, but particularly in literary presentation of ethnography
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethnographic writing. The six contributors to this book investigate and discuss the multiple connections between ethnographic writing and gender in both the history of anthropology and contemporary anthropology, underlining problems, potentialities, stereotypes, experiments, continuities, changes, and challenges. Building on a prologue by two Malinowski grandchildren and an exploration of the role that Bronislaw Malinowski’s first wife, Elsie Masson, played in his literary presentation, the anthropologists collected here problematize writing gender and gendered writing in ethnography, revealing how these twin themes touch the history of the discipline itself and the classics of anthropology. Has the legacy of Writing Culture and Women Writing Culture obviated the need to consider gender in writing? Or could it be thatthe very mechanics of ethnographic writing are still imbued with hidden gendered divisions of labor? Following the editors’ extensive overview of the question, the contributing authors tackle gender and ethnographic writing from various vantages: with a view to the past, but also to the influence of previous feminist critiques in the present, and with accounts of the issues they themselves have faced and the solutions they have devised.
Reviews
— Chandana Mathur, Maynooth University, Ireland
“A timely and ambitious book that shows how issues of gender are far from exhausted. The introduction is compelling, providing a wide-ranging plot in which a novel examination of Malinowski’s collaborative work with his wife Elsie Masson, may lead to an exploration of dialogic and collaborative ethnographic research and writing. Based on their varied ethnographic experiences, the contributors provide thought-provoking insights into how recent anthropology of gender has contributed to this trend in “writing culture.”
— Signe Howell, University of Oslo, Norway
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elisabeth Tauber is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is co-founder of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA).
Dorothy L. Zinn is Professor of Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is co-founder of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing
Editors: Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71726-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71725-4Published: 08 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71728-5Published: 09 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71726-1Published: 07 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4218
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 235
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnography, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Gender Studies