ANTH 565: ETHNOGRAPHY AS SCIENCE AND LITERATURE October 29-31: Modern and Post-Modern Bedouin Studies: Abu-Lughod and Lavie

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Half will read Abu-Lughod, and half will read Lavie this week. The non-readers will be responsible for Abu-Lughod's introduction and her chapter on Poetry and part of Lavie's introduction and her chapter on the Old Woman. The issues that I am mainly concerned with this week are two: post-modern experiential ethnography and feminist ethnography. We will deal with the post-Modern question on Monday and the feminist issues on Wednesday. October 29: The ethnographer as hero(ine) People should either post, or mail to me your reactions to the different ways the person of the ethnographer enters the accounts of research in the book you read, and at least a little about the other book in comparison. October 31: Feminism and ethnography Few would disagree that Veiled Sentiments is an explicitly feminist ethnography, while Poetics is not. Everyone should post on two issues What do you think makes an ethnography feminist--is it simply engagement with women or women's issues, or does it require a specific theoretical stance? What makes VS a feminist ethnography? From a feminist standpoint, are there things the book is missing?

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