Research Catalog

Title

The Politics of ethnographic reading and writing : confrontations of Western and indigenous views / edited by Henk Driessen.

Publication

Saarbrücken ; Fort Lauderdale : Verlag Breitenbach, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Driessen, Henk.
• Nijmeegs Instituut voor Comparatieve Cultuur- en Ontwikkelingsstudies.

Description

vii, 183 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change, 0935-7173 ; v. 13

Uniform Title

Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change v. 13.

Subject

• Ethnology > Authorship > Congresses
• Ethnology > Philosophy > Congresses
• Ethnology > Methodology > Congresses

Note

• Papers from a conference sponsored by the Nijmegen Institute for Comparative Studies on Culture and Development, held Dec., 1991 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Being British and being English : disclosing a hidden ethnography from the British kinship classics in a mid-1980's Portugese pedagogical setting / Mary Bouquet -- 'You caan't win' : Australian aborigines and the Anglo-Australian criminal justice system / Eric Venbrux -- Islamic commentaries and French codes : the confrontation and accommodation of two forms of textualization of family law in Morocco / Léon Buskens -- Western and Indonesian views on the Abangan-Santri division in Javanese Society : the reception of Geertz's 'The Religion of Java' / Huub de Jonge -- Words with a certain fixed value : the concepts of 'primative' and 'Islam' in the colonial literature about West Africa / Jean Kommers -- Writing about Eastern Europe : perspectives from ethnography and anthropology / Longina Jakubowska -- Mirroring ourselves through western texts : the limits of an indigenous anthropology / Dimitra Gefou-Madianou.

ISBN

3881565825

LCCN

^^^93237349^

OCLC

• 28857978
• SCSB-12822245

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library