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The social anthropology of women is not a new topic. Women have been in there somewhere from the beginning of the discipline. According to Evans-Pritchard (1955) the relationship between the sexes was a favourite subject of Victorian British social anthropologists. Rogers (1978, op.cit. below, pp.125-6)
10 maj 2023 · At the centre of Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated feminist classic The Second Sex (1949) – sometimes referred to as the Bible of second wave feminism – stands ‘the myth of Woman,’ an expression used to denote images of womanhood that rest upon and reinforce beliefs in a static feminine essence supposedly shared by all genuine women ...
20 lut 2020 · This paper presents a theoretical and methodological approach to analysing images in public space as part of a transformative visual dialogue in everyday life. Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of ...
Treating feminist anthropology as a traveling theory capable of addressing critical social problems beyond gender, this article aims not merely to recredit feminism in anthropology, but also to show its potential to transform anthropology into an antiracist, decolonial, and abolitionist project.
20 lut 2020 · Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of images...
We can characterize the anthropology of women as falling into four categories so far: the study of women in relation to men and gender roles (“women and men”); large-scale cross-cultural theorizing about the position of women globally (“woman, culture, and society”); the study of women’s activities as valuable in and of themselves ...
21 sty 2022 · Female breasts and noses, as well as their surgical modification, are imbued with specific meanings in the city, with large breasts, for example, connoting both erotic femininity and rural backwardness, depending on who has them and at what point in their life course.
