Nine contributions explore forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and the `others' who are being studied. Topics include narrating cultural resurgence, a case of autoethnography as political resistance in Romania, life histories and the problem of representation on Corsica, and schooling stories and the ethnography of autoethnography in rural France. The focus is on the ways in which `natives' are now often writing their own stories. Distributed by New York University Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study 'others' ethnographically, this timely book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and those 'others' who are studied. Informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contribution to the growing dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. The chapters build upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres. Ethnic autobiography, self-reflexivity in ethnography, and native ethnography raise provocative questions about a range of issues for the contemporary scholar: authenticity of voice; ethnographic authority; and the degree to which autoethnography constitutes resistance to hegemonic bodies of discourse. Examined here in a variety of cultural and political contexts, writing about the self offers challenging insights into the construction and transformation of identities and cultural meanings.
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Acknowledgements vii(2) Notes on Contributors ix(4) List of Illustrations xiii Introduction 1(20) Deborah E. Reed-Danahay Part One: Power, Documentation, and Resistance 21(86) 1 Narrating Cultural Resurgence: Genre and Self-Representation for Pan-Mayan Writers 21(26) Kay B. Warren 2 Autoethnography as Political Resistance: A Case from Socialist Romania 47(24) David A. Kideckel 3 The Power of Biography: Criminal Policy, Prison Life, and the Formation of Criminal Identities in the Swedish Welfare State 71(36) Birgitta Svensson Part Two: Exile, Memory, and Identity 107(62) 4 Lives Writ Large: Kabyle Self-Portraits and the Question of Identity 107(16) Henk Driessen 5 Leaving Home: Schooling Stories and the Ethnography of Autoethnography in Rural France 123(22) Deborah E. Reed-Danahay 6 Narrating the I versus Narrating the Isle Life Histories and the Problem of Representation on Corsica 145(24) Alexandra Jaffe Part Three: Voice, Representation, and Genre 169(78) 7 The Taming of Revolution: Intense Paradoxes of the Self 169(26) Michael Herzfeld 8 Writing Birthright: On Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation 195(28) Pnina Motzafi-Haller 9 Blurred Genres and Blended Voices: Life History, Biography, Autobiography, and the Auto/Ethnography of Womens Lives 223(24) Caroline B. Brettell Bibliography 247(22) Index 269
Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.
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