Own or Other Culture

<p><em>Own or Other Culture</em> challenges those anthropologists who suggest that fieldwork in the 'West' is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already 'known' to either Westerners or non Westerners. Revealing some pioneering articles in social anthropology written over a period of twenty years Judith Okely discusses selected themes which include:<br> * questions of reflexivity and autobiography<br> * anthropology in Europe<br> * the cultural location of the anthropologist<br> * feminism in anthropology. Illustrated with photographs <em>Own or Other Culture</em> covers subjects ranging from the author's own boarding school revealing a British exotica and colonial comparisons to how Gypsies who treat non-Gypsies as the 'other' act to create or manipulate cultural difference.<br> Feminist anthropology is developed in a reassessment of de Beauvoir and Kaberry while gender and bodily experience is explored in the face of popular demands by women readers for cross-cultural examples.</p>