Gendered fields : women, men, and ethnography / edited by Diane Bell, Pat Caplan, and Wazir Jahan Karim.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Yes Virginia, there is a feminist ethnography : reflections from three Australian fields /​ Diane Bell -- Fictive kinship or mistaken identity? Fieldwork on Tubetube Island, Papua New Guinea /​ Martha Macintyre -- Between autobiography and method : being male, seeing myth and the analysis of structures of gender and sexuality in the eastern interior of Fiji /​ Allen Abramson -- With moyang melur in Carey Island : more endangered, more engendered /​ Wazir Jahan Karim -- Facework of a female elder in a Lisu field, Thailand /​ Otome K. Hutheesing -- A hall of mirrors : autonomy translated over time in Malaysia /​ Ingrid Rudie -- Among Khmer and Vietnamese refugee women in Thailand : no safe place /​ Lisa Moore -- Breaching the wall of difference : fieldwork and a personal journey to Srivaikuntam, Tamilnadu /​ Kamala Ganesh -- Motherhood experienced and conceptualised : changing images in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands /​ Joke Schrijvers -- Perception, east and west : a Madras encounter /​ Penny Vera-Sanso -- Learning gender : fieldwork in a Tanzanian coastal village, 1965-1985 /​ Pat Caplan -- The mouth that spoke a falsehood will later speak the truth : going home to the field in Eastern Nigeria /​ Ifi Amadiume -- Sexuality and masculinity in fieldwork among Columbian blacks /​ Peter Wade -- Gendered participation : masculinity and fieldwork in a south London adolescent community /​ Les Back -- Sisters, parents, neighbours, friends : reflections on fieldwork in North Catalonia (France) /​ Oonagh O'brien -- Epilogue : the "nativised" self and the "native" /​ Wazir Jahan Karim.

Examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the persona of the ethnographer.