ANTH 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ethnography, Metanarrative, Marilyn Strathern
22 Nov 2011
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Post-structuralism and post-modernism: post-structuralism posited that the imposition of a structure on everything was a mistake. Reaction to work of levi-strauss and others. Self-interest and the social good: some implications of hagen gender imagery (1981) Redefining the problem of women in anthropology. Shes writing about people who are cash croppers (coffee) Men who failed to develop a strong exchange network. Gender is not the basic reality, gender is a metaphor. Gender as metaphor for controlling reality around us. Women stand for something that can be seen as negative. Strathern as a british social anthropologist: careful analysis of social relations, of behaviour, of the local constitution of groups, etc, statements about men and women are treated as metaphors that people use to talk about success and failure. Criticizing ortner who tried to impose a universal order on gender. The individual is contained, smallest unit of action contained.
