Abstract
Visitors to foreign countries very often return with a selection of objects collectively known as souvenirs. These are items acquired on the journey. They may be received as gifts, purchased in a tourist shop, or even just picked up on the beach. Their economic value is not necessarily important, for these objects are not usually for resale. Instead, they are essentially material reminders of the experience of the traveller. The objects may also be chosen for a variety of other reasons — for some perceived intrinsic beauty, to show off to friends, to give as a gift, or just to stand on the windowsill and bring out one of the colours in the curtains. However, all will be chosen because they are in some way remarkable, and because they stand for the place in which they were acquired.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ardener, Edwin (ed.) (1971) Social Anthropology and Language (London: Tavistock).
Ardener, Shirley (ed.) (1993) Defining Females: The Nature of Women in Society (Oxford: Berg; first published 1978).
Clifford, James and George E. Marcus (1986) Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press).
Cornwall, Andrea and Nancy Lindisfarne (1994) Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethno-graphies (London: Routledge).
Durkheim, Emile and Marcel Mauss (1963)Primitive Classification, trans., with an introduction, by Rodney Needham (London: Cohen & West).
Gullestad, Marianne (1993) ‘Home decoration as popular culture. Constructing homes, genders and classes in Norway’, in Teresa del Valle (ed.), Gendered Anthropology (London: Routledge), pp. 128–61.
Hirschon, Renée (1993) ‘Open Body/Closed Space: The Transformation of Female Sexuality’, in Shirley Ardener (ed.), Defining Females: The Nature of Women in Society (Oxford: Berg), pp. 51–72.
Lienhardt, Godfrey (1961) Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka (Oxford: Clarendon).
Moore, Henrietta L. (1993) ‘The differences within and the differences between’ in Teresa del Valle (ed.), Gendered Anthropology (London: Routledge), pp. 193–204.
Okely, Judith and Helen Callaway (eds) (1992) Anthropology and Autobiography (London: Routledge).
Rivers, W. H. R. (1926) ‘The Primitive Conception of Death’, in Psychology and Ethnology (London and New York: Kegan Paul & Trench Trubner).
Valle, Teresa del (ed.) (1993) Gendered Anthropology (London: Routledge).
Further Reading
Ardener, Shirley (ed.) (1975) Perceiving Women (London: Malaby Press).
Barley, Nigel (1997) Dancing on the Grave (London: Abacus).
Caplan, Pat (ed.) (1987) The Cultural Construction of Sexuality (London and New York: Tavistock).
Gell, Alfred (1992) The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images (Oxford: Berg).
Hertz, R. (1960) Death and the Right Hand, trans. by R. and C. Needham (London: Cohen & West).
Moore, Henrietta L. (1988) Feminism and Anthropology (Cambridge: Polity).
Needham, Rodney (1973) Right and Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification (Chicago University Press).
Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere (eds) (1974) Woman, Culture and Society (Stanford University Press).
Novels
Barker, Pat, Regeneration (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992), is a trilogy of novels about the First World War, which feature W. H. R. Rivers, although not much direct mention is made of his anthropological work until the third book, the Ghost Road, where the effects of a British ban on head-hunting in the Solomon Islands are juxtaposed with reports of the atrocities taking place in war-torn Europe.
Bowen, E. Smith, Return to Laughter (London: Victor Gollancz, 1954) is a fictionalized account of fieldwork among the Tiv of Nigeria by Laura Bohannan.
Mahfouz, Naguib, Palace Walk (London: Black Swan, 1994), the first of the Cairo Trilogy, illustrates particularly well the contrasting life of men and women in a traditional Egyptian Muslim family.
Films
The ‘Strangers Abroad’ series (André Singer, 1985) introduces five of the early anthropologists and their influence on the subject. Off the Verandah, about Bronislaw Malinowski, demonstrates the value for British colonists of getting down off their verandahs and living with the people they were describing. Fieldwork, about Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, pursues the theme by illustrating his work with the Arunta and other Australian Aboriginal peoples. There are also films about W. H. R. Rivers (see Chapter 11), about Margaret Mead and about Edward Evans-Pritchard.
Copyright information
© 1999 Joy Hendry
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hendry, J. (1999). Seeing the World. In: An Introduction to Social Anthropology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27281-5_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27281-5_2
Publisher Name: Palgrave, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-74472-7
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-27281-5
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies CollectionSocial Sciences (R0)