Full Description
A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the debate in anthropology over the authenticity of field data and representations of other cultures. Together, they take aim at those who claim ethnography is outmoded or false.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI
1. An Ethnographic Life 27 JEANETTE DICKERSON-PUTMAN 2. Pulling the Right Thread 44 MICHELE DOMINY 3. It's Not about Women Only 56 LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI 4. "Every Action Is a Human Interaction" 77 MIRIAM KAHN 5. Remember Malinowski's Canoe and Luk Luk Gen 92 PAMELA SHEFFIELD ROSI 6. Ethics of Attention 110 DEBORAH BIRD ROSE 7. The Squabbling Stops When Everybody Wins 123 MICHAEL D. LIEBER 8. From Pig Lunch to Praxis 137 JOY A. BILHARZ 9. Separation and Support, Conflict and Romance in the Relations between Sikaiana Men and Women 149 WILLIAM W. DONNER 10. Indigenous Religion in an Intercultural Space 168 ERIC VENBRUX 11. Food and Ghosts: Dance in the Context of Baining Life 187 JANE FAJANS Conclusion: What Is Ethnography? Is It Real? 209 JANE C. GOODALE References 227
Contributors 247
Index 253
