Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing

Elisabeth Tauber is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is co-founder of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA).Dorothy L. Zinn is Professor of Anthropology at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is co-founder of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA).

• 1. Prologue: Family Chatter: The women in Malinowski’s life (according to family legend).- 2. The Graphy in Ethnography: Reconsidering the gender of and in the genre.- 3. Towards an Anthropological Appreciation of Silence as an Ethnographic Key: Homely, instrumental, ethical.- 4. Feminist Ethnography in a Women’s Shelter: Self-reflexivity, participation and activism in ethnographic writing.- 5. Can There be Feminist Anthropology in Turkey?: Histories, continuities and (dis)connections of gender and genre.- 6. Uncertainty, Failure and Reciprocal Ethnography.- 7. Thin. Cruisy. Queer: Writing through affect.- 8. Incorporated Genre and Gender: Elsie Masson, her writings and her contribution to Malinowski’s career.- 9. Afterword.