Women in the Field: Anthropological ExperiencesPeggy Golde What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? Here we see highly trained and qualified women anthropologists examining their own efforts to live and work in alien cultures in many parts of the world. New chapters have been added to this ground-breaking volume, and each contributor is, in one way or another, a pioneer. All have chosen to devote their lives and energies to the understanding of worlds not their own. All have felt it important to explain what they do, why they do it, and how they feel about their work. Cultures vary widely in their perception of a woman engaged in anthropological field work. Each of these women has had to deal with the influence of her gender, as well as the subject of her study, on the mechanics of establishing a living-working relationship with people of another culture. The diversity of their responses to the presence of a foreign woman at work in their midst gives the book an invaluable cross-cultural perspective, as does the great variety of reactions and strategies on the part of the authors themselves. Besides providing rare insight into field work in general, Women in the Field mirrors the difficulties and delights of any person thrust into an unfamiliar culture. |
Contents
Kapluna Daughter | 17 |
LAURA THOMPSON | 45 |
PEGGY GOLDE | 65 |
LAURA NADER | 95 |
RUTH LANDES | 117 |
HELEN CODERE | 141 |
NIARA SUDARKASA née GLORIA A MARSHALL | 165 |
ERNESTINE FRIEDL | 193 |
CORA DU BOIS | 219 |
HAZEL HITSON WEIDMAN | 237 |
ANN FISCHER | 265 |
MARGARET MEAD | 291 |
FREEDMAN | 333 |
Field Work in Highland New Guinea | 359 |
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