Toward an Anthropology of Women.

Reiter, Rayna R.

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“…The task was to use the new data on women's lives to expand understandings of history, to reconstruct theory, and to challenge inequality. In the 1970s feminist anthropology produced the key edited volumes Women, Culture and Society (Rosaldo et al, 1974) and Toward an Anthropology of Women (Reiter, 1975), which joined with the growing focus on food-ways in anthropology inspired by Mary Douglas (1966Douglas ( , 1984, Marvin Harris (1974Harris ( , 1985, and Sidney Mintz (1985) to launch cross-cultural studies of gender and food like the work of Anna S. Meigs (1984), Miriam Kahn (1986), and Mary J. Weismantel (1988). Early studies of food and gender looked at food roles and meanings, interrogating power relationships institutionalized in taken-for-granted gendered customs and habits.…”

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More than "Add Women and Stir" - A Conversation with Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

Kjær¹,

Leer²

2017

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More Than 'Add Women and Stir' -A Conversation with Carole Counihan.Food studies and the study of food and gender have been particularly strong scholarly currents in the US. Here, anthropologist Carole Counihan was one of the first scholars to work with the food-gender intersection. Over the past four decades, she has continued to work with the area in an array of different contexts. In this interview, Counihan describes how she has worked with the gendering of food culture. Along the way, she also offers her perspectives on working in changing academic environments and shares her suggestions for future areas of research.

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Section: Katrine Meldgaard Kjaer and Jonatan Leer: You Were One Of Thmentioning

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More than "Add Women and Stir" - A Conversation with Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

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Leer²

2017

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“…As the 1960s progressed, a new generation of scholars came of age embracing ''materialism'' and found the state entering ethnographic monographs (Hansen 1977;Sider 1986;Stack 1974;Susser 1982;Schneider and Schneider 1976;Wilmsen 1989) and theoretical discussions (Gailey 1985;Mullings 1987;Reiter 1975;Smith 1978). Much of what they discovered when they looked for culture, whether it was hunter-gatherer culture in the Kalahari Desert (Wilmsen 1989), the culture of poverty in the United States (Stack 1974) or social movements (Bright and Harding 1984) was the heavy guiding hand of state power, with its special bodies of armed men, class, ethnic, gender, and geopolitical interests and policies around social welfare, education, public health, taxation, and so on.…”

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Interrogating the neo-pluralist orthodoxy in American anthropology

Marcus¹

2008

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For most of the twentieth century the state was not a major part of the anthropological toolkit. Despite significant archaeologically driven work on evolution and state formation, most socio-cultural anthropologists have viewed the state with empiricist scepticism, populist hostility, or ethnographic indifference. Typically, state-theory has been left to other disciplines, such as political science and sociology. Since the end of the cold war there has been a greatly increased interest in the state among anthropologists. Philip Abrams, Michael Herzfeld, and Akhil Gupta, who coined the phrase ''ethnography of the state'', have been particularly important to this development. However, there remains no serious engagement with the body of state-theory generated, over the last century, by political activists, scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. It will be argued that this has allowed for the growth of an unproblematised orthodoxy around an ethnographically informed variant of classic American pluralist state-theory. This orthodoxy has hobbled the understanding and explanation of complex political phenomena, led to confusion between hypotheses and conclusions, and tied parts of the discipline to a partisan political project that remains largely un-interrogated. This essay seeks to provide context and clarification on state-theory as a step towards discussion of anthropology's contemporary engagement with the state and broader questions of political action and social change.Keywords State theory Á Ethnography of the state Á Pluralism Á Imagined stateThe state does not exist in the phenomenal world; it is a fiction of the philosophers…There is no such thing as the power of the state A. Radcliffe-Brown 1940

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“…Los esfuerzos feministas se enfocaron en una revisión crítica de las teorías que utilizaban a la reproducción para relacionar el género con la sexualidad, explicando así la inevitabilidad y naturalidad de la subordinación de las mujeres (para la antropología, véase Reiter, 1975;Rosaldo y Lamphere, 1974;Lamphere, 1977;Rapp, 1979;Atkinson, 1982;Moore, 1988).…”

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La antropología redescubre la sexualidad: un comentario teórico

Vance¹

1997

EDU

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Toward an Anthropology of Women.

Cited by 81 publications

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More than "Add Women and Stir" - A Conversation with Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

More than "Add Women and Stir" - A Conversation with Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

Interrogating the neo-pluralist orthodoxy in American anthropology

La antropología redescubre la sexualidad: un comentario teórico

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