Pauline Mckenzie Aucoin
Biographic Data
| ID | 91651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline Mckenzie Aucoin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline Mckenzie |
| FAMILY NAME | Aucoin |
| SIGNATURE | AUCOIN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Space and Place
‘The Story that Came to Me’: Gender, Power and Life History Narratives—Reflections on the Ethics of Ethnography in Fiji
I was well into my fieldwork in Fiji when Vasi, a young Fijian woman, came to visit me. My research into the social construction of gender in Fijian society had been going well. I had travelled to several of Fiji's larger islands, including Koro, Vanua Levu, and Viti Levu, and established a wide network of contacts with men and women in many of their villages. I had conducted interviews with a number of women involved in Na Soqosoqo Vakamarama, t…
Blinding the Snake: Women's Myths as Insubordinate Discourse in Western Fiji
How and in what cultural arenas do women contest, contradict or invert dominant ideologies of gender? This article examines how myths told by women in western Viti Levu, Fiji, represent a site of resistance (Abu-Lughod, 1990) wherein hegemonic understandings of gender are contested. This is achieved through a transformation of signs (Hall, Critcher, Jefferson, Clarke and Roberts, 1978) that sees authoritative male figures depicted as powerless, c…
Sens et cohérence: Études sur le vécu social des sexes et la politique de la culture: Introduction
Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, Anne-Catherine Kennedy, Jean Lapointe, Sens et cohérence: études sur le vécu social des sexes et la politique de la culture: Introduction, Anthropologica, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2000), pp. 7-10
Articulated Meanings: Studies in Gender and the Politics of Culture: Introduction
Blinding the Snake: Women's Myths as Insubordinate Discourse in Western Fiji
How and in what cultural arenas do women contest, contradict or invert dominant ideologies of gender? This article examines how myths told by women in western Viti Levu, Fiji, represent a site of resistance (Abu-Lughod, 1990) wherein hegemonic understandings of gender are contested. This is achieved through a transformation of signs (Hall, Critcher, Jefferson, Clarke and Roberts, 1978) that sees authoritative male figures depicted as powerless, c…
Blinding the Snake: Women's Myths as Insubordinate Discourse in Western Fiji
How and in what cultural arenas do women contest, contradict or invert dominant ideologies of gender? This article examines how myths told by women in western Viti Levu, Fiji, represent a site of resistance (Abu-Lughod, 1990) wherein hegemonic understandings of gender are contested. This is achieved through a transformation of signs (Hall, Critcher, Jefferson, Clarke and Roberts, 1978) that sees authoritative male figures depicted as powerless, c…
Sens et cohérence: Études sur le vécu social des sexes et la politique de la culture: Introduction
Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, Anne-Catherine Kennedy, Jean Lapointe, Sens et cohérence: études sur le vécu social des sexes et la politique de la culture: Introduction, Anthropologica, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2000), pp. 7-10
Articulated Meanings: Studies in Gender and the Politics of Culture: Introduction
‘The Story that Came to Me’: Gender, Power and Life History Narratives—Reflections on the Ethics of Ethnography in Fiji
I was well into my fieldwork in Fiji when Vasi, a young Fijian woman, came to visit me. My research into the social construction of gender in Fijian society had been going well. I had travelled to several of Fiji's larger islands, including Koro, Vanua Levu, and Viti Levu, and established a wide network of contacts with men and women in many of their villages. I had conducted interviews with a number of women involved in Na Soqosoqo Vakamarama, t…
Toward an Anthropological Understanding of Space and Place
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)