Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale
Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale
edited by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi and Jeanette Dickerson-Putman contributions by Michael D. Lieber, Joy A Bilharz, William W. Donner, Eric Venbrux, Jane Fajans, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, Jane C. Goodale, Michele Dominy, Miriam Kahn, Pamela Sheffield Rosi and Deborah Bird Rose
University of Illinois Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-252-03267-7 | Paper: 978-0-252-07484-4 Library of Congress Classification GN21.G66P85 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.80092
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the debate in anthropology over the authenticity of field data and representations of other cultures. Together, they take aim at those who claim ethnography is outmoded or false.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi is a research associate in anthropology and cofounder of the Owl Network at Bryn Mawr College. Jeanette Dickerson-Putman is an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
REVIEWS
“A celebration (and defence) of ethnography as the essence of anthropology. . . . This volume certainly speaks to a monumental ‘legacy.’”--Anthropological Forum
"Debate in anthropology over the role of ethnographic research and writing has been fierce over the past two decades, calling into question the legitimacy of anthropological reportage and its representation of exotic (and not so exotic) societies. This collection, by examining the life work of an outstanding contemporary ethnographer and the legacy that she has created through the work of those she has trained, renews this lively debate. The contributors are unanimous in their commitment to the ethnographic enterprise and clear in their confrontation with those who decry it. This book will stir the best kind of anthropological argument, and that is in and of itself a significant contribution."--David Counts, professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, and adjunct professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI 1. An Ethnographic Life 27
JEANETTE DICKERSON-PUTMAN
2. Pulling the Right Thread 44
MICHELE DOMINY
3. It's Not about Women Only 56
LAURA ZIMMER-TAMAKOSHI
4. "Every Action Is a Human Interaction" 77
MIRIAM KAHN
5. Remember Malinowski's Canoe and Luk Luk Gen92
PAMELA SHEFFIELD ROSI
6. Ethics of Attention 110
DEBORAH BIRD ROSE
7. The Squabbling Stops When Everybody Wins 123
MICHAEL D. LIEBER
8. From Pig Lunch to Praxis 137
JOY A. BILHARZ
9. Separation and Support, Conflict and Romance in the Relations between Sikaiana Men and Women 149
WILLIAM W. DONNER
10. Indigenous Religion in an Intercultural Space 168
ERIC VENBRUX
11. Food and Ghosts: Dance in the Context of Baining Life 187