76.
Women at the beginning of anthropological project (fieldworkers and collectors)
Convenors:
Grazyna Kubica,
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Ulla Vuorela,
University of Helsinki
The workshop will
deal with „intellectual reassessment of European anthropology’s own
historical roots“, as put by 8th EASA Conference Organizers. We would
like to start a discussion about how women entering anthropological project at
the beginning of 20th cent. and later saw important problems of
their time: racism, colonialism, etc. and how their personal experience
intervened in their perceiving of anthropology’s tasks. Another important
theme would be their notion of womanhood and how that was shaped by their
fieldwork experiences. And vice-versa: how being anthropologists created their
woman’s profile? We would like to learn about their biographies and
careers, what it was to be a woman entering fieldwork and academia.
Finally, we would
like to find out whether their experiences and writings are connected with our
own problems and approaches. What do we learn from them? In perceiving the
world, our role as women, as anthropologists? Are there any common traits we
can draw together?
barbara.plankensteiner@ethno-museum.ac.at
Feminine?-yes,
please!; Feminist?-not at all!
Hilma
Granqvist and the making of an anthropological career
Ulla
Vuorela, University of Helsinki
Good lady,
androgynic angel and intrepid woman. Maria Czaplicka – her feminist
profile