An awkward relationship: the case of feminism and anthropology
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2009v14n2p83Keywords:
Feminism, Anthropology, ParadigmsAbstract
This article explores some of the problems - and reactions - that arise in the dialogue between disciplinary practices and feminist theory. Certainly anthropology has interests parallel to those of feminist scholarship, but the proximity makes anthropologists’ resistance more poignant. That dissonance is actually a product of feminists’ and anthropologists’ intellectual proximity – as neighbors in tension. Practitioners of both imagine they might be overthrowing existing paradigms, and one might, in turn, expect “radical” anthropology to draw on its feminist counterpart, what does not seem to have happened. Their resistance to one another will throw light on the difference between “feminism” and “anthropology” as such.References
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BOXER, Marilyn. For and about women: the theory and practice of women’s studies in the United States. In: KEOHANE, Nannerl; ROSALDO, Michelle; GELPI, Bárbara (ed.). Feminist theory: a critique of ideology. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1982.
CLIFFORD, James. On ethnographic authority. Representations, Berkeley, n. 1, p. 118-46, 1983.
CLIFFORD, James. Fieldwork, reciprocity and the making of ethnography texts: the example of Maurice Leenhardt. Man, Londres, n. 15, p. 518-32, 1980.
EISENSTEIN, Hester. Contemporary feminist thought. Sidney: Unwin Paperbacks, 1984.
ELSHTAIN, Jean Bethke. Feminist discourse and its discontents: language, power and meaning. In: KEOHANE, Nannerl; ROSALDO, Michelle; GELPI, Bárbara (ed.). Feminist theory: a critique of ideology. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1982.
ELSHTAIN, Jean Bethke. Public man, private woman: woman in social and political thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.
EVENS, T.M.S. Mind, logic and the efficacy of the Nuer incest prohibition. Man, Londres, n. 18, p. 11-33, 1983.
HARAWAY, Donna. In the beginning was the world: The Genesis of Biological Theory. Signs 6, Chicago, n. 3, p. 469-81, 1981.
HERDT, Gilbert. Preface to Rituals of manhood: male initiation in Papua New Guinea. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.
JACKSON, Michael. Knowledge of the body. Man, Londres, n. 18, p. 327-45, 1983.
JACKSON, Michael. Allegories of the wilderness: ethics and ambiguity in Kuranko narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
JANEWAY, Elizabeth. Who is Sylvia? On the loss of sexual paradigms. Signs 5, Chicago, n. 4, p. 573-89, 1980.
KEOHANE, Nannerl; ROSALDO, Michelle; GELPI, Bárbara (ed.). Feminist theory: a critique of ideology. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1982.
KUHN, Thomas. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. [A estrutura das revoluções científicas, São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2006].
LANGLAND, Elizabeth; GOVE, Walter. A feminist perspective in the academy: the diference it makes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Publicado primeiramente pela Society for Values in Higher Education and Vanderbilt University, 1981.
LLOYD, Genevieve. History of philosophy and the critique of reason. Critical Philosophy, n. 1, p. 5-23, 1984.
LONGINO, Helen; DOELL, Ruth. Body, bias and behavior: a comparative analysis of reasoning in two areas of biological science. Signs 9, Chicago, n. 2, p. 206- 27, 1983.
MACCORMACK, Carol. Anthropology – a discipline with a legacy. In: SPENDER, Dale (ed.). Men’s studies modified. New York: Pergamon Press, 1981.
PERSON, Ethel Spector. Sexuality as the mainstay of identity: Psychoanalytic perspectives. Signs 5, Chicago, n. 4, p. 605-30, 1980.
RABINOW, Paul. “Facts are a word of God”: an essay review of James Clifford’s Person and myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian world”. In: STOCKING, G. (ed.). Observers observed: history of anthropology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
RABINOW, Paul. Reflections on fieldwork in Marrocos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
RAPP, Rayna. Anthropology (Review essay). Signs 4, Chicago, n. 3, p. 497- 513, 1979.
REGISTER, Cheri. Literary criticism (Review essay). Signs 6, Chicago, n. 2, p. 268-82, 1980.
SAYERS, Janet. Biological politics: feminist and anti-feminist perspectives. London: Tavistock Publications, 1982.
SCHEPER-HUGHES, Nancy. Introduction: the problem of bias androcentric and feminist anthropology. Women’s studies, n. 10, 1983.
SHAPIRO, Judith. Anthropology and the study of gender. In: LANGLAND, Elizabeth; GOVE, Walter. A feminist perspective in the academy: the diference it makes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
SHAPIRO, Judith. Cross-cultural perspectives on sexual differentiation. In: KATCHADOURIAN, H. (ed.). Human sexuality: a comparative and developmental perspectives. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979.
STACEY, Judith; THORNE, Barrie. The missing feminist revolution in sociology. Social Problems 32, Berkley, n. 4, 1985.
YOUNG, M. Magicians of Manumanua: living myth in Kalauna. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983.
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STRATHERN, Marilyn. An awkward relationship: the case of feminism and anthropology. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 14, n. 2, p. 83–104, 2009. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2009v14n2p83. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/4508. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.
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