TY - BOOK ID - 1657007 TI - Identity and networks : fashioning gender and ethnicity across cultures AU - Bryceson, Deborah Fahy AU - Okely, Judith AU - Webber, Jonathan PY - 2007 SN - 1845451619 9781845451615 9781845451622 1845451627 1782381988 9781782381983 PB - New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Sociology of culture KW - Women KW - Femmes KW - Identity KW - Social networks KW - Identité KW - Identité KW - Southern Africa KW - Great Britain KW - China KW - Poland KW - Czaplicka, Maria KW - Identity. KW - Social networks. KW - Networks, New-girl KW - Networks, Women's KW - New-girl networks KW - Women's networks KW - Female identity KW - Feminine identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Essays KW - Race KW - Feminism KW - Gender KW - Industry sector KW - Judaism KW - Relationships KW - Women's movements KW - Book KW - Edited volume KW - Colleagues KW - Anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1657007 AB - Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this wide-ranging collection of essays, mostly by social anthropologists, focuses instead on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. Using fieldwork findings drawn from Africa, Asia, and Europe, special emphasis is placed on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in the cultural, social, political, and religious realms of public life. Under what circumstances does trust arise, paving the way for friendship, collegiality, knowledge creation, national unity, or emergence of leadership? How is social life constructed as a collective endeavour? Does the means towards sociability become its end? And what can be said about the agency and collegiality of women? The inspiration for examining these conundrums is the work and persona of Shirley Ardener, to whom the volume is dedicated. Contributors: Jonathan Benthall, Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Gina Buijs, Sandra Burman, Hilary Callan, Gaynor Cohen, Janette Davies, Tamara Dragadze, Ronnie Frankenberg, Peter Geschiere, Kirsten Hastrup, Paula Heinonen, Maria Jaschok, Grazyna Kubica, Rhian Loudon, Sharon Macdonald, Zdzislaw Mach, Fiona Moore, Judith Okely, Lidia D. Sciama, Shui Jingjun, Cecillie Swaisland, Jacqueline Waldren, Jonathan Webber. ER -