Ruth Landes and the remaking of the anthropological canon

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2489151
AutoresJosé Hildo De Oliveira Filho (0000-0002-8774-1447, Universidade Aberta, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen15
Número3
Fecha de publicación2018-11-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412018v15n3a200
OpenAlexW2901255763
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412018000300200
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas48

This article analyses Ruth Landes' contributions to social anthropology based on a series of feminist, queer and postcolonial insights. Landes' academic trajectory and her biography are used to understand her unique form of writing ethnographies. I try to show that 'The City of Women' (originally published in 1947) does not follow classic anthropological tropes present in ethnographies in the 1930s and 1940s. Her rejection of canonical ways of writing is not only a stylistic choice but a result of Landes' social trajectory. For this reason, 'The City of Women' is an essential work in the effort to understand the ever-present challenges posed by writing ethnographic texts

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