Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things by Karim, Wazir-Jahan Begum - 1981

London ; New York: Routledge, 1993. Paperback. Fine; as new. xiii, 260 pages: illustrations, maps; 25 cm; bibliographical references and indexes. Examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the persona of the ethnographer. Contents: Yes Virginia, there is a feminist ethnography: reflections from three Australian fields / Diane Bell -- Fictive kinship or mistaken identity? Fieldwork on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea / Martha Macintyre -- Between autobiography and method: being male, seeing myth and the analysis of structures of gender and sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji / Allen Abramson -- With moyang melur in Carey Island: more endangered, more engendered / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Facework of a female elder in a Lisu field, Thailand / Otome K. Hutheesing -- A hall of mirrors: autonomy translated over time in Malaysia / Ingrid Rudie -- Among Khmer and Vietnamese refugee women in… Read More

London : Athlone Press ; [Atlantic Highlands] N. J. : Humanities Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 270 pages; Description: xv, 270 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Mah-Meri (Malaysian people) . Mah-Meri (Malaysian people) --Religion.