Gendered fields: women, men, and ethnography / edited by Diane Bell, Pat Caplan, and Wazir Jahan Karim

London; New York: Routledge, 1993. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiii, 260 pages: illustrations, maps. Contents: Yes Virginia, there is a feminist ethnography: reflections from three Australian fields / Diane Bell -- Fictive kinship or mistaken identity? Fieldwork on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea / Martha Macintyre -- Between autobiography and method: being male, seeing myth and the analysis of structures of gender and sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji / Allen Abramson -- With moyang melur in Carey Island: more endangered, more engendered / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Facework of a female elder in a Lisu field, Thailand / Otome K. Hutheesing -- A hall of mirrors: autonomy translated over time in Malaysia / Ingrid Rudie -- Among Khmer and Vietnamese refugee women in Thailand: no safe place / Lisa Moore -- Breaching the wall of difference: fieldwork and a personal journey to Srivaikuntam, Tamilnadu / Kamala Ganesh -- Motherhood experienced and conceptualised: changing images in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands / Joke Schrijvers -- Perception, east and west: a Madras encounter / Penny Vera-Sanso -- Learning gender: fieldwork in a Tanzanian coastal village, 1965-1985 / Pat Caplan -- The mouth that spoke a falsehood will later speak the truth: going home to the field in Eastern Nigeria / Ifi Amadiume -- Sexuality and masculinity in fieldwork among Columbian blacks / Peter Wade -- Gendered participation: masculinity and fieldwork in a south London adolescent community / Les Back -- Sisters, parents, neighbours, friends: reflections on fieldwork in North Catalonia (France) / Oonagh O'brien -- Epilogue: the ""nativised"" self and the ""native"" / Wazir Jahan Karim. Subjects: Ethnology Fieldwork. Sex role. Feminist criticism.Ethnology Field work.