<strong>Own or Other Culture</strong> challenges those anthropologists who suggest thatfieldwork in the West is easy or merely a reiteration of what is alreadyk... » 

Own or Other Culture challenges those anthropologists who suggest thatfieldwork in the West is easy or merely a reiteration of what is alreadyknown to either Westerners or non Westerners. Revealing some pioneeringarticles in social anthropology written over a period of twenty years JudithOkely discusses selected themes which include questions of reflexivity and autobiography anthropology in Europe the cultural location of the anthropologist feminism in anthropology. Illustrated with photographs Own or Other Culturecovers subjects ranging from the authors own boarding school revealing aBritish exotica and colonial comparisons to how Gypsies who treat nonGypsiesas the other act to create or manipulate cultural difference.Feminist anthropology is developed in a reassessment of de Beauvoir and Kaberrywhile gender and bodily experience is explored in the face of popular demandsby women readers for crosscultural examples. «