Janet Gunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5624689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Gunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunn |
| SIGNATURE | GUNN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa;, Email: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Thursdays We Worship the Banana Plant”: Encountering Lived Hinduism in a Canadian Suburb
Classic models of ethnography have the anthropologist going off into “the field” to encounter “the native.” How is the project of ethnography altered when one's field site is one's own city? This paper draws on fieldwork in a Canadian city to probe the entailments of conducting anthropological research in one's own backyard, throwing the conventional understanding of the ethnographer into question. What does this type of encounter reveal about th…
Women's Experiences of Hindu Traditions: A State of the Field Review
Static models of Hindu women as marginalized and muted subjects have in recent years been enlivened by a body of work that investigates the ways in which women both subtly and overtly resist, contest, and re‐imagine these roles. This article presents a thematic survey of this field of study, drawing from a selection of recent ethnographic work that has contributed to our deepened understanding of the manifold ways – both positive and negative – t…
On Thursdays We Worship the Banana Plant”: Encountering Lived Hinduism in a Canadian Suburb
Classic models of ethnography have the anthropologist going off into “the field” to encounter “the native.” How is the project of ethnography altered when one's field site is one's own city? This paper draws on fieldwork in a Canadian city to probe the entailments of conducting anthropological research in one's own backyard, throwing the conventional understanding of the ethnographer into question. What does this type of encounter reveal about th…
Women's Experiences of Hindu Traditions: A State of the Field Review
Static models of Hindu women as marginalized and muted subjects have in recent years been enlivened by a body of work that investigates the ways in which women both subtly and overtly resist, contest, and re‐imagine these roles. This article presents a thematic survey of this field of study, drawing from a selection of recent ethnographic work that has contributed to our deepened understanding of the manifold ways – both positive and negative – t…
On Thursdays We Worship the Banana Plant”: Encountering Lived Hinduism in a Canadian Suburb
Classic models of ethnography have the anthropologist going off into “the field” to encounter “the native.” How is the project of ethnography altered when one's field site is one's own city? This paper draws on fieldwork in a Canadian city to probe the entailments of conducting anthropological research in one's own backyard, throwing the conventional understanding of the ethnographer into question. What does this type of encounter reveal about th…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Field (mathematics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)