explain anthropology with a related film (The study field is ANTHROPOLOGY)
Fidan Denizci
GenderandSexuality214.pptxGender and Sexuality: How the woman anthropologist changed the notion of fieldwork? Through experimental fw. especially on gender and sexuality, mixture of different genres, questioned their own authority and subjectivities. Defining Feminist Ethnography: V. Kamala: First women anthropologists, wives of well known mala anthro.s, : Side-stories, what they wrote was highly devalorized as “subjective” and “anectodal”.
Now: Western women question their own positionality and biases.
Essentialism (biological universalism) vs. cultural relativism, universal sisterhood: Different types of oppressions.
Let’s not separate fieldwork data from theory and personal experiences (Gender Revolution documentary)
“Confessional Field Literature”: First-person narrative in fieldwork. “I” among the observed others. Relationship of trust. Failures: Joanna Briggs among Inuit Eskimos, judgmental on their sex roles (male authority, not much female autonomy), showed her anger, marginalized, ostracized for good. Respect who has what kind of reputation, and who can go out with whose permission. Actively participate in festivities, ritual dances, circumcision ceremonies etc.
Laura Bohannon, trying to get into the men’s world, called as the “witch”, negotiator between village elders on important decisions on small pox drugs.
Language: Diary, fieldnotes, videos, documentaries, letters, streams of conscioussness.
Boas’s student Zora Neale Hurston: African and Carribean cultural life, language. Harlem Renaissance. Poetic. Intersectionality idea.
Laura Bohannon Zora Neale Hurston
Out in Nicaragua: Local and Transnational Desires after the Revolution: Florence E. Babb
Social and political rivalry between gay and lesbian activisms: Visibility and effectiveness. Larger historical dynamics, neoliberalism and conservatism after the SANDINISTA revolution and rule in 1979-1990 and AIDS related activism (safe sex). Definition of gay, as passive (deviant). Many came out when they separated from their large, patriarchal, extended, families with no privacy to join the Sandinista guerrillas. Collective lives and productions, coming out is possible, emerging gay and lesbian movements in 1970s. 1980: Women’s rights, gay movement>lesbian movement, Gay Pride. Bars and streets vs. the house, spaces of activism. 1992, Post-Sandinista, conservative period: Legal criminalization of LGBT, as non-procreative, not natural.
Lesbians more social discrimination => low self-esteem and self-confidence. 1990s, globalization and neoliberalism, gays’ more transnational support. Their voluntary exile to the US and coming back as Miami Boys or Metro Gays, HIV/AIDS related activism, medicalization of “deviance” . Lesbians, less visible, less financial resources. A few queer, transnational elite. Competition for resources among NGOs affected solidarity ties at the national level. Bringing gender => Political activism, citizenship rights and self-determination.
Women’s rights LGBTQ rights: None of us is free, until everyone of us is free.
