CONTENTS

Preface

xi

Introduction: The Artistry of Social Life

Deborah Fahy Bryceson

PART I: FASHIONING IDENTITIES

1 Changing Cultures, Changing Rooms: Fashioning Identities
and Anthropological Research

21

Sharon Macdonald

2. Identity at Play: Individuals, Characters, and Theatres of Action 38

Kirsten Hastrup

3. Constructing Identities in a Post-Communist Society: Ethnic,

National, and European

54

Zdzisaw Mach

4. Making Sense of the Past: Reflections on Jewish Historical

Consciousness

73

Jonathan Webber

5. A Sense of People and Place: The Chapel and Language in

Sustaining Welsh Identity

91

Gaynor Cohen

6. Towards an Ethnography of Colleagueship

Hilary Callan

103

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PART II: GENDER AGENCY AND NETWORKS

7. Thinking the Unheard, Writing the Unwritten: Reflecting on
Marginality, Ethnography, and Texts

115

Maria Jaschok in dialogue with Shui Jingjun

8. The Womens Movement: The Formative Years, 18501930

133

Cecillie Swaisland

9. A Good Lady, Androgynous Angel, and Intrepid Woman:

Maria Czaplicka in Feminist Profile

146

Grayna Kubica

10. Ritual Sisters or Female Rulers? Gender and Chiefship

Revisited in Southern Africa

164

Gina Buijs

11. Revolting, Revolutionary, and Rebellious Women: Symbolic

Disruption of Traditional Femininity and the Liberation of
Femineity and Other Muted Identities

179

Rhian Loudon and Ronnie Frankenberg

12. What Women Really Want: Gender, Ethnicity, and Job

Expectations on an Automobile Factory Assembly Line

197

Fiona Moore

13. Can You Call This Fieldwork? September in Venice

214

Lidia D. Sciama

14. Gendered Lessons in Ivory Towers

228

Judith Okely

AFTERWORDS: IN CELEBRATION OF SHIRLEY ARDENER

Gendering Oxford: Shirley Ardener and Cross-Cultural Research
Janette Davies and Jacqueline Waldren

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Shirley Ardeners Habitus

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260

Jonathan Benthall

Circumstance, Personality, and Anthropology

261

Tamara Dragadze

Shirley in My Mind

263

Grayna Kubica

Titi ikoli in the Academy

265

Sharon Macdonald

Going the Extra Mile

267

Sandra Burman

Her Powers of Persuasion

268

Fiona Moore

Shirley Ardener: Mentor and Friend

269

Paula Heinonen

The African Connection in Oxford

271

Gina Buijs

Shirleys African Roots

272

Cecillie Swaisland

Returning to The Mountain

273

Peter Geschiere

Shirleys Magic

276

Jonathan Webber

List of Published Works by Shirley Ardener

279

Notes on the Contributors

284

Index

292