Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312238789 ISBN 13: 9780312238780

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

Eight ethnographically base case studies from around the world, inspired by a panel at an anthropology conference in 1998, explore the gendered way in which modernity has been expressed and experienced. They cover consumption and desire, producing modernities, modern families, and engaging capital and the state. Among the contexts are Thailand, Nigeria, the Hajj, Chile, and post-socialist China. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy L. Hodgson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the author of "Once Intrepid Warriors": Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development.

Review:

These stunningly wide-ranging explorations of the experiences of communities from China to Chile,Africa to the Americas, are grounded in the best kind of ethnography: serious, sustained, and leavened with historical imagination. --Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0312238789
• ISBN 13: 9780312238780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 271
• Editor: Dorothy Louise Hodgson