Anne Brydon
Biographic Data
| ID | 110433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Brydon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brydon |
| SIGNATURE | BRYDON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | a University of Western Ontario , London, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Predicament of Nature
This cultural analysis reconsiders the modernist narrative about the politics of whales and whale hunting in order to explore Icelandic responses to the return of the killer whale Keiko (star of the Free Willy movies) to Icelandic waters in 1998. Ambivalence about Keiko's plight required cultural creativity to block identification with the whale since in Icelandic hegemonic discourse such feelings have been associated with the supposed irrational…
Site Re-visionings
Consuming Fashion
Consuming Fashion: Adorning Transnational Body. ANNE BRYDON and SANDRA NIESSEN, eds. Oxford and New York: Berg Press, 1998; 196 pp. If imagines a continuum between most idiosyncratic cultural navel-gazing and most militantly positivist social science - and sees Clifford Geertz somewhere in middle - anthropologists brought together by Consuming fashion: Adorning transnational claim a much wider place on continuum than has been customary. Originall…
A Moment's Notice
Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures. Carol Greenhouse. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xv. 315 pp., notes, references, index
Exhibition Review
Out of Step: Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum Anne Brydon (bio) The Bata Shoe Museum, Sharon McDonald, Director. 327 Bloor Street West. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1W7. Introduction A museum specializing in the display of shoes might strike the uninitiated reader as yet another in a myriad of specialty showcases that takes individual obsessions and turns them into roadside attractions for curiosity-seeking tourists. In this category one could include …
Inscriptions of self
This article explores nineteenth-century British travel writings about Iceland and the importance of literary representation as a socially constitutive force. In the accounts of Richard Burton and William Morris, Iceland emerges as the representations of a vast colonial power, seeking to embrace the island in its Romantic conceptualization of the remote North, so integral to the imagining of British national identity. Given the roots of ethnograp…
What's Wrong with Ethnography?, Martin Hammersley, New York
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Red Leviathan
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with key protagonists, Ryan Tucker Jones has written a ground-breaking account of Soviet-era whaling. From its nineteenth-century imperialist a...
The Predicament of Nature
This cultural analysis reconsiders the modernist narrative about the politics of whales and whale hunting in order to explore Icelandic responses to the return of the killer whale Keiko (star of the Free Willy movies) to Icelandic waters in 1998. Ambivalence about Keiko's plight required cultural creativity to block identification with the whale since in Icelandic hegemonic discourse such feelings have been associated with the supposed irrational…
A Moment's Notice
Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures. Carol Greenhouse. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xv. 315 pp., notes, references, index
Inscriptions of self
This article explores nineteenth-century British travel writings about Iceland and the importance of literary representation as a socially constitutive force. In the accounts of Richard Burton and William Morris, Iceland emerges as the representations of a vast colonial power, seeking to embrace the island in its Romantic conceptualization of the remote North, so integral to the imagining of British national identity. Given the roots of ethnograp…
What's Wrong with Ethnography?, Martin Hammersley, New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Inscriptions of self
This article explores nineteenth-century British travel writings about Iceland and the importance of literary representation as a socially constitutive force. In the accounts of Richard Burton and William Morris, Iceland emerges as the representations of a vast colonial power, seeking to embrace the island in its Romantic conceptualization of the remote North, so integral to the imagining of British national identity. Given the roots of ethnograp…
Exhibition Review
Out of Step: Toronto’s Bata Shoe Museum Anne Brydon (bio) The Bata Shoe Museum, Sharon McDonald, Director. 327 Bloor Street West. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1W7. Introduction A museum specializing in the display of shoes might strike the uninitiated reader as yet another in a myriad of specialty showcases that takes individual obsessions and turns them into roadside attractions for curiosity-seeking tourists. In this category one could include …
Consuming Fashion
Consuming Fashion: Adorning Transnational Body. ANNE BRYDON and SANDRA NIESSEN, eds. Oxford and New York: Berg Press, 1998; 196 pp. If imagines a continuum between most idiosyncratic cultural navel-gazing and most militantly positivist social science - and sees Clifford Geertz somewhere in middle - anthropologists brought together by Consuming fashion: Adorning transnational claim a much wider place on continuum than has been customary. Originall…
A Moment's Notice
Moment's Notice: Time Politics across Cultures. Carol Greenhouse. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. xv. 315 pp., notes, references, index
Site Re-visionings
The Predicament of Nature
This cultural analysis reconsiders the modernist narrative about the politics of whales and whale hunting in order to explore Icelandic responses to the return of the killer whale Keiko (star of the Free Willy movies) to Icelandic waters in 1998. Ambivalence about Keiko's plight required cultural creativity to block identification with the whale since in Icelandic hegemonic discourse such feelings have been associated with the supposed irrational…
Red Leviathan
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with key protagonists, Ryan Tucker Jones has written a ground-breaking account of Soviet-era whaling. From its nineteenth-century imperialist a...
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · History (2 works)