D Reed-Danahay
Biographic Data
| ID | 21282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Reed-Danahay |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Reed-Danahay |
| SIGNATURE | REED-DANAHAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2046-4895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Middle-class locations: Emplacements and displacements of habitus among the French in London
How Brexit changed migration: French citizens in London from ‘EU movers’ to ‘migrants
For the French in London, as for other citizens of the European Union, the Brexit process resulted in the end of free movement for EU citizens relocating to the United Kingdom and affected the rights of those already living there. This article traces how Brexit shaped the spatial choices of middle-class French citizens whose status in London changed as they became international migrants with diminished rights in the United Kingdom. This case stud…
Introduction. Thinking through Sociality: The Importance of Mid-level Concepts
Leaving Home: Schooling Stories and the Ethnography of Autoethnography in Rural France
This chapter discusses the process of becoming educated leads inevitably to a departure from their rural villages. The growth of interest in home or native anthropology represents a questioning of the dominant thinking in anthropology that the readers must leave home to do good ethnography. Education has long been one of the main avenues of social mobility for peasants, making Carles&s; trajectory a familiar story in rural France. American anthro…
Brexit, Liminality, and Ambiguities of Belonging: French Citizens in London
The Brexit process has affected the lives of “middling” mobile Europeans living in the UK, who have experienced uncertainty as their legal status and social position have shifted. Based on ethnographic research during the years 2015–2020 among French citizens living in London, I draw upon the concepts of liminality, social drama, and precarity to analyze the effects of the unfolding events triggered by the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum to leav…
Bourdieu and Social Space: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu
B ourdieu, P ierre (1930–2002)
Pierre Bourdieu was one of the leading French intellectuals of the twentieth century. Although he is most frequently referred to as a sociologist, he was also an anthropologist and ethnographer. Bourdieu's two most famous books are Outline of a Theory of Practice (1972) and Distinction (1984). He advocated a reflexive approach and a method of “participant objectivation” in order to undermine ideas positing a dichotomy between objectivity and subj…
Habitus
Habitus is a concept that is most closely associated with the writings of Pierre Bourdieu. It refers to an embodied orientation to the world that includes dispositions, tastes, aspirations, and points of view. Habitus is acquired in childhood and involves practical knowledge about the world and how to behave within it that appears as common sense or doxa . It is not a unique attribute of an individual but rather it is shared by those of a similar…
Atkinson, Will: Beyond Bourdieu. From Genetic Structuralism to Relational Phenomenology
Anthropos , Seite 272 - 273
Bourdieu and Critical Autoethnography: Implications for Research, Writing, and Teaching
This article argues that by combining critical ethnographic and autoethnographic perspectives we can move beyond the insider/outsider dualism, better understand the ways in which stories of personal experience are "strategic," and interrogate the broader contexts and processes of social inequality that shape life trajectories. The potential contributions to critical autoethnography of the reflexive approach of "self-analysis" advocated by Pierre …
‘Like a foreigner in my own homeland’: Writing the dilemmas of return in the Vietnamese American diaspora
In what ways can refugees be both cosmopolitan and diasporic? This article juxtaposes published memoirs with material from ethnographic research in order to analyse the discursive frameworks through which Vietnamese Americans of the 1.5 generation negotiate both diasporic imaginaries and cosmopolitan aspirations. The collective memories of the Vietnam War that circulate in the Vietnamese American diaspora place obstacles in the path of a younger …
Ajec @ 21
AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)AJEC @ 21: A Perspective from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE
Stories and Portraits of the Self (review)
Reviewed by: Stories and Portraits of the Self Deborah Reed-Danahay (bio) Helena Carvalhão Buescu and João Ferreira Duarte, eds. Stories and Portraits of the Self. Amsterdam: Rodolfi, 2007. 332 pp. + notes. ISBN 978-90420-2328-4, $97.00. This edited collection cuts a broad swath in dealing with autobiography and visual portraiture from the nineteenth century to the present, and includes twenty-three short chapters. In their insightful introductio…
Anthropologists, Education, and Autoethnography
Autoethnographies place personal experience within social and cultural contexts and raise provocative questions about social agency and socio-cultural constraints. Several authors are discussed who write about educational settings that are quite familiar to them, thereby positioning themselves as insiders to the milieus studied. At the same time, each book considered here poses dilemmas for the construction of an insider/outsider divide, leading …
De la résistance: Ethnographie et théorie dans la France rurale
Cet article s’appuie sur les différentes façons d’aborder le concept de résistance pour mettre en cause la séparation entre ethnographie et théorie en anthropologie. Le concept français de débrouillardise, tel qu’il est utilisé par les agriculteurs auvergnats, est une façon d’exprimer la manipulation sociale, qui recouvre à la fois les notions d’accommodation, de résistance, de ruse et des façons de se débrouiller ou de s’arranger. Les fois où l’…
Theory in Anthropology Since the Enlightenment
Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman, One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology. University of Chicago Press, 2005. This book developed out of lectures delivered on the history of anthropology to mark the inauguration of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, in June 2002. The contributors are distinguished anthropologists who in two cases were key actor…
Tristes Paysans: Bourdieu's Early Ethnography in Bearn and Kabylia
Pierre Bourdieu conducted ethnographic research in his native region of Béarn and in Algeria during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He rarely drew explicit comparisons between the two sites, despite striking parallels in themes such as notions of honor in Mediterranean peasant ethos, the habitus as internalized dispositions, and peasant malaise in the face of socioeconomic change. Bourdieu called his Béarn ethnography an inversion of Lévi-Strauss…
Europeanization and French Primary Education
The European Union takes a growing role in social policy, including educational policy, among its fifteen member nations. The creation of a “New Europe” requires, according to most of its architects, the creation of a European identity and notions of European citizenship. We are, consequently, seeing new educational policies and reforms incorporating what is called a “European dimension” in schools. A new sort of European citizen or “self” is the…
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Turning points and textual strategies in ethnographic writing
In an essay on infertility and pregnancy, anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod (1995) places her own personal experience of IVF and a resultant pregnancy in the context of her work and life as an ethnographer among Bedouin women. The article is quite ``self-reexive,'' but the author makes use of her own experiences in order to convey a sense of what it means to be a pregnant or trying-to-get-pregnant woman in another cultural context. This essay gives …
Sites of Memory: Women's Autoethnographies from Rural France
At the same time that France's family farms declined in number during the latter half of the twentieth century, they increasingly became a site of collective memory and nostalgia. The published life stories of three French farm women, born in 1880, 1900, and 1919, illustrate the discursive frameworks through which gendered rural lives are constructed in contemporary autobiographical genres
Remembering Pierre Bourdieu 1930-2002
Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 75, Number 2, Spring 2002
Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography
This is your home now: Conceptualizing Location and Dislocation in a Dementia Unit
In this chapter, I discuss ethnographic work in a residential unit for Alzheimer's patients located in the southeastern part of the United States. The borders of home and work in this nursing home are analyzed in order to unpack meanings of 'home' for residents. Postmodern discussions of location and dislocation for contemporary identities have relevance for an analysis of this setting. The concepts of non-place ( non-lieu) from the work of Marc …
Talking about Resistance: Ethnography and Theory in Rural France
The A. uses ways of talking about the concept of « resistance » to critique the division between ethnography and theory in anthropology. The French concept of debrouillardise, as used par Auvergnat farmers, is a way of talking about social manipulation which can express accomodation, resistance, cunning, ways of « making out », and ways of « making do ». Fieldwork incidents in which the A. unwittinggly came to be implicated in behaviors labelled …
Bourdieu and Critical Autoethnography: Implications for Research, Writing, and Teaching
This article argues that by combining critical ethnographic and autoethnographic perspectives we can move beyond the insider/outsider dualism, better understand the ways in which stories of personal experience are "strategic," and interrogate the broader contexts and processes of social inequality that shape life trajectories. The potential contributions to critical autoethnography of the reflexive approach of "self-analysis" advocated by Pierre …
Anthropologists, Education, and Autoethnography
Autoethnographies place personal experience within social and cultural contexts and raise provocative questions about social agency and socio-cultural constraints. Several authors are discussed who write about educational settings that are quite familiar to them, thereby positioning themselves as insiders to the milieus studied. At the same time, each book considered here poses dilemmas for the construction of an insider/outsider divide, leading …
Turning points and textual strategies in ethnographic writing
In an essay on infertility and pregnancy, anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod (1995) places her own personal experience of IVF and a resultant pregnancy in the context of her work and life as an ethnographer among Bedouin women. The article is quite ``self-reexive,'' but the author makes use of her own experiences in order to convey a sense of what it means to be a pregnant or trying-to-get-pregnant woman in another cultural context. This essay gives …
This is your home now: Conceptualizing Location and Dislocation in a Dementia Unit
In this chapter, I discuss ethnographic work in a residential unit for Alzheimer's patients located in the southeastern part of the United States. The borders of home and work in this nursing home are analyzed in order to unpack meanings of 'home' for residents. Postmodern discussions of location and dislocation for contemporary identities have relevance for an analysis of this setting. The concepts of non-place ( non-lieu) from the work of Marc …
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social
Backward countryside, troubled city: French teachers' images of rural and working-class families
French primary school teachers criticize both urban working-class and rural families, but often for different reasons. Their discourse about families reflects conflicting themes in French culture-the romanticization of rural life and the idealization of the bourgeois family model. Our analysis shows that the dominant ideology of the family in France is not coherent, and that teachers make use of ambiguous symbols and images of the family in order…
Farm Children at School: Educational Strategies in Rural France
Deborah Reed-Danahay, Farm Children at School: Educational Strategies in Rural France, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, Anthropological Research in France: Problems and Prospects for the Study of Complex Society (Apr., 1987), pp. 83-89
Tristes Paysans: Bourdieu's Early Ethnography in Bearn and Kabylia
Pierre Bourdieu conducted ethnographic research in his native region of Béarn and in Algeria during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He rarely drew explicit comparisons between the two sites, despite striking parallels in themes such as notions of honor in Mediterranean peasant ethos, the habitus as internalized dispositions, and peasant malaise in the face of socioeconomic change. Bourdieu called his Béarn ethnography an inversion of Lévi-Strauss…
Champagne and Chocolate: "Taste" and Inversion in a French Wedding Ritual
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community in Central France
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community in Central France. PERLE MOHL. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanuum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1997 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index
Sites of Memory: Women's Autoethnographies from Rural France
At the same time that France's family farms declined in number during the latter half of the twentieth century, they increasingly became a site of collective memory and nostalgia. The published life stories of three French farm women, born in 1880, 1900, and 1919, illustrate the discursive frameworks through which gendered rural lives are constructed in contemporary autobiographical genres
Brexit, Liminality, and Ambiguities of Belonging: French Citizens in London
The Brexit process has affected the lives of “middling” mobile Europeans living in the UK, who have experienced uncertainty as their legal status and social position have shifted. Based on ethnographic research during the years 2015–2020 among French citizens living in London, I draw upon the concepts of liminality, social drama, and precarity to analyze the effects of the unfolding events triggered by the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum to leav…
Biquefarre . 1984. Directed by Georges Rouquier
Farm Children at School: Educational Strategies in Rural France
Deborah Reed-Danahay, Farm Children at School: Educational Strategies in Rural France, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, Anthropological Research in France: Problems and Prospects for the Study of Complex Society (Apr., 1987), pp. 83-89
Backward countryside, troubled city: French teachers' images of rural and working-class families
French primary school teachers criticize both urban working-class and rural families, but often for different reasons. Their discourse about families reflects conflicting themes in French culture-the romanticization of rural life and the idealization of the bourgeois family model. Our analysis shows that the dominant ideology of the family in France is not coherent, and that teachers make use of ambiguous symbols and images of the family in order…
Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
Talking about Resistance: Ethnography and Theory in Rural France
The A. uses ways of talking about the concept of « resistance » to critique the division between ethnography and theory in anthropology. The French concept of debrouillardise, as used par Auvergnat farmers, is a way of talking about social manipulation which can express accomodation, resistance, cunning, ways of « making out », and ways of « making do ». Fieldwork incidents in which the A. unwittinggly came to be implicated in behaviors labelled …
Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers. DON D. Fowler and Donald L. Hardesty, eds
Education and identity in rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Sociologie de l'école. Marie Duru-Bellat and Agnès Heriot-van Zanten
Champagne and Chocolate: "Taste" and Inversion in a French Wedding Ritual
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Anthropology and Friendship
Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Anthropology and Friendship. BRUCE GRINDAL and FRANK SALAMONE. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1995. 260 pp., references
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling. DEBORAH REEDDANAHAY. Cambridge University Press, 1996; 237 pp. This book documents the ethnographic and ethnohistorical fieldwork Reed-Danahay conducted in a small village (Lavialle) in the Auvergne region of France during the early 1908s. It will be of considerable interest to all those interested in issues of power and social/cultural reproduction in the school, as well as to th…
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community in Central France
Village Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community in Central France. PERLE MOHL. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanuum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1997 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index
Peasant and French: Cultural Contact In Rural France during the Nineteenth Century
Peasant and French: Cultural Contact In Rural France during the Nineteenth Century. James R. Lehning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii. 239 pp., figures, tables, references, index
Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social
School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling
School-smart and Mother-wise: Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling. Wendy Luttrell. New York: Routledge, 1997. 164 pp
Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography
This is your home now: Conceptualizing Location and Dislocation in a Dementia Unit
In this chapter, I discuss ethnographic work in a residential unit for Alzheimer's patients located in the southeastern part of the United States. The borders of home and work in this nursing home are analyzed in order to unpack meanings of 'home' for residents. Postmodern discussions of location and dislocation for contemporary identities have relevance for an analysis of this setting. The concepts of non-place ( non-lieu) from the work of Marc …
Turning points and textual strategies in ethnographic writing
In an essay on infertility and pregnancy, anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod (1995) places her own personal experience of IVF and a resultant pregnancy in the context of her work and life as an ethnographer among Bedouin women. The article is quite ``self-reexive,'' but the author makes use of her own experiences in order to convey a sense of what it means to be a pregnant or trying-to-get-pregnant woman in another cultural context. This essay gives …
Sites of Memory: Women's Autoethnographies from Rural France
At the same time that France's family farms declined in number during the latter half of the twentieth century, they increasingly became a site of collective memory and nostalgia. The published life stories of three French farm women, born in 1880, 1900, and 1919, illustrate the discursive frameworks through which gendered rural lives are constructed in contemporary autobiographical genres
Remembering Pierre Bourdieu 1930-2002
Anthropological Quarterly - Volume 75, Number 2, Spring 2002
Europeanization and French Primary Education
The European Union takes a growing role in social policy, including educational policy, among its fifteen member nations. The creation of a “New Europe” requires, according to most of its architects, the creation of a European identity and notions of European citizenship. We are, consequently, seeing new educational policies and reforms incorporating what is called a “European dimension” in schools. A new sort of European citizen or “self” is the…
Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling
Tristes Paysans: Bourdieu's Early Ethnography in Bearn and Kabylia
Pierre Bourdieu conducted ethnographic research in his native region of Béarn and in Algeria during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He rarely drew explicit comparisons between the two sites, despite striking parallels in themes such as notions of honor in Mediterranean peasant ethos, the habitus as internalized dispositions, and peasant malaise in the face of socioeconomic change. Bourdieu called his Béarn ethnography an inversion of Lévi-Strauss…
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