Space, Text, and Gender: An Anthropological Study of the Marakwet of Kenya (Mappings: Society/Theory/Space) - Softcover

Moore, Henrietta L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898628253 ISBN 13: 9780898628258

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1995

Synopsis

This groundbreaking anthropological study strikingly illustrates how we can use different interpretations of place to learn more about a society, and demonstrates the value of a feminist approach to the analysis of changing systems of representation. Henrietta Moore focuses on the relationship between the organization of household space and gender relations, showing how that relation shifts due to changing social and economic conditions, including such factors as wage labor and education. This updated edition contains a new foreword and afterword in which Moore relates her work to more recent developments around gender, resistance, difference, and spatiality.

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About the Author

Henrietta L. Moore, Ph.D., teaches at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Feminism and Anthropology and A Passion for Difference.

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Preface to the Paperback Edition
I. The Background and Setting of the Study
1. Introduction
2. The Marakwet
3. Sibou Village
4. Space, Time, and Gender
II. Cultural Texts and Social Change
5. Of Texts and Other Matters
6. Ash and Animal Dung: The Organization of Domestic Space Among the Endo
7. Interpreting Space
8. Wages and Westernization: The Changing Spaces of the Endo
III. Interpretation and Representation
9. Invisible Women
10. Text, Ideology, and Power
Afterword
Appendix 1: Kinship Terminology
Appendix 2: Burial

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898628253
• ISBN 13: 9780898628258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234