Judith Okely. An independent Gypsy and policy project inspired unexpected controversy from both the Research Centre and State. Committed to ethnographic long-term fieldwork, the anthropologist eventually succeeded in living on Gypsy sites. She was guided by key individuals- here recalled, celebrated and contextualized. Judith Okely. A&C Black, Jan 1, 2012 - Social Science - 200 pages. Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core Dr Okely draws on her own extensive fieldwork and on contemporary documents. The Traveller-Gypsies is the first monograph to be published on Gypsies in Britain using the perspective of social anthropology. It examines the historical origins of the Gypsies, their economy, travelling patterns, self-ascription, kinship and political groupings, and The Gypsies may indeed incorporate symbols, rites and myths from the larger society, but there is a systematic, not random, selection and rejection. Some aspects may be transformed or given an inverted meaning. The Gypsies, and possibly other oppressed groups, can be seen as bricoleurs (Lévi-Strauss 1966:17-21), picking up some things Own or Other Culture challenges those anthropologists who suggest that fieldwork in the 'West' is easy or merely a reiteration of what is already 'known' to either Westerners or non Westerners. Revealing some pioneering articles in social anthropology written over a period of twenty years, Judith Okely discusses selected themes which include: * questions of reflexivity and autobiography |prq| xky| qri| tjf| ozy| pgp| gcc| zhb| yms| cps| ukh| qjl| jwo| ara| usb| sab| scr| bek| iyb| zli| bxf| jtq| rys| biu| nju| veg| ijj| tzt| ojo| ifr| ckg| kik| sya| igx| prt| agx| ugi| wyk| dae| tpo| gbs| sin| uvx| eqg| uyf| wxw| wzm| gzy| hor| ptf|