Anthropology and literature: Humanistic themes in the ethnographic fiction of Hilda Luper and Edith Turner
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Date
2020
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University of Western Cape
Abstract
This mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented with creative forms of ethnography were doubly marginalised: first as women in an androcentric male canon in British social anthropology and American cultural anthropology, and second as creative writers whose work has been consistently undervalued in sombre scholarly circles. The study proposes that Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911-1995) and Edith Turner (1921-2016) should be regarded as significant in a still unexcavated literary tradition or subgenre with Anglo-American anthropology.
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Magister Artium - MA
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Humanistic themes, Female-dominated tradition, Swazi co-wives, Humanist cross-cultural engagement