The Woman Field Worker in a Purdah Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2497903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Papanek (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 160-163 |
| Publication date | 1964-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.23.2.d4l18lq8761226qp |
| OpenAlex | W2087445730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
In a purdah society, where women are either physically or socially secluded, it goes without saying that only a woman field worker (anthropologist, doctor, teacher, village development worker, etc.) can hope to reach the women at all. The foreign woman field worker, however, not only has access to local women but can occupy a surprisingly flexible position in local society. She can then move with ease among local men, as well as local women, if she wishes to define her own role in this way, and if her own background enables her to do so. Western women, particularly, are often able to define their roles with a flexibility which is not available to full-fledged participants in the local culture, even when these have been influenced by Western education. This holds true only as long as the foreign woman remains truly an outsider, for on this depends her ability to maintain her local role according to a definition largely provided by herself. When she begins to conform to local mores, marries, or involves herself with a local man, the flexibility of her role-definition becomes more and more circumscribed
Business · Economics · Ethnology · Field (mathematics) · Flexibility (engineering) · Local community · Local society · Management · Mores · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Religion, Society, and Development
Resistance Against Seclusion
The Merchant of Art
The Merchant of Art
Ethical and Effective Ethnographic Research Methods
Ethnographic Research with Adolescent Students
Negotiating male gatekeeper violence in team-based research on Bangladeshi migrant women in Malaysia
Women in South and Southeast Asia
Role-Making in Participant Observation
The Merchant of Art. An Egyptian Hilali Oral Epic Poet in Performance
Reassessing the research relationship
Walking a Tightrope
A Foreign Woman Researcher in a Purdah Society
Experiences in Doing Ethnography
Current status of research on women in the Arab world
False Specialization and the Purdah of Scholarship—A Review Article
Woman's Place
A note on Bhatra Sikhs
Not one of the guys
Rethinking the Role of the Woman Field Worker in Purdah Societies
Beyond the Lonely Anthropologist
On the Modesty of Women in Arab Muslim Villages
Accomplice, patron, go-between? A role to play with poor migrant Qur'anic students in northern Nigeria
Purdah
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 2018 (52) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |