Anthropology, the study of man and occasionally woman
By: by Ellice B. Gonzalez.
Series: Working paper / Women in International Development ;; #75; Working paper (Michigan State University. Office of Women in International Development) ;; #75.
Publisher: Michigan State University
Published: 1984
Place of publication: East Lansing, MI, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Anthropology -- Philosophy.; Feminist anthropology.; Women anthropologists.
Description: The paradigm of the ideal and real model that anthropologists apply cross-culturally can be used to analyze the discipline itself. The ideal model of anthropology is one which is non-ethnocentric, comparative and, by implication, free of gender bias. The reality of anthropological study reflects an androcentrism which is observed in the treatment of female anthropologists by the discipline, in the collection of anthropological data, and in the analysis of ethnographic material. A feminist approach in the research setting and the classroom enables anthropologists and anthropology to overcome this inherent inconsistency in traditional anthropological thought and to approximate more closely the ideal model of anthropology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 17-21.