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Under Development: GenderFeminist Anthropology Meets Development

Under Development: Gender: Feminist Anthropology Meets Development [This chapter reflects on the emergence of feminist scholarship in anthropology and its contribution to “gender and development” as a social field of policies and practices. Generally speaking, anthropology as a discipline has been very conducive to studying the variety of human social organisation and cultural meaning systems. In the aftermath of the Second World War, which paralleled the liberation struggles in the colonies, the scientific landscape of anthropology evolved into a divide between a “pure” scientific and a “critical” orientation. “Pure” scientific in the sense of a value-free approach, and critical in the sense that the knowledge produced was considered to be useful for the emancipation of “oppressed” groups in the “Third World”, such as peasants, landless labourers and women (Wertheim, 1974; Huizer and Mannheim, 1979).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Under Development: GenderFeminist Anthropology Meets Development

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Verschuur, Christine; Guérin, Isabelle; Guétat-Bernard, Hélène
Reysoo, Fenneke
Under Development: Gender — Jan 22, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-67554-8
Pages
42 –60
DOI
10.1057/9781137356826_3
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Abstract

[This chapter reflects on the emergence of feminist scholarship in anthropology and its contribution to “gender and development” as a social field of policies and practices. Generally speaking, anthropology as a discipline has been very conducive to studying the variety of human social organisation and cultural meaning systems. In the aftermath of the Second World War, which paralleled the liberation struggles in the colonies, the scientific landscape of anthropology evolved into a divide between a “pure” scientific and a “critical” orientation. “Pure” scientific in the sense of a value-free approach, and critical in the sense that the knowledge produced was considered to be useful for the emancipation of “oppressed” groups in the “Third World”, such as peasants, landless labourers and women (Wertheim, 1974; Huizer and Mannheim, 1979).]

Published: Jan 22, 2016

Keywords: Poor Woman; Feminist Scholarship; Cultural Critique; Cultural Constraint; American Ethnologist

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