Description: This volume presents important essays inspired by the pioneering works of three leading women anthropologists. The title may therefore be read in more than one way.
Brief description:
Mrs. Shirley Ardener is at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford.
Review Quotes:
"Persons and Powers of Women has three principle objectives: first, a biographical tribute to three great anthropologists, Audrey Richards, Phyllis Kaberry and Barbara Ward; secondly, a comprehensive bibliography of these women's written works; and thirdly, a celebration of these women with a series of six essays devoted to the theoretical and field work which they pioneered. Each of these objectives was extraordinarily well done. Moreover, the six papers actually go beyond the achievements of Richards, Kaberry and Ward by using their works as a stepping stone to new perspectives in anthropological study ... its readership [should] include all those interested in gender and feminist studies." --African Studies
"...this book is a record of good scholarship, and it does honor the memory of those remarkable anthropologists, Audrey Richards, Phyllis Kaberry, and Barbara Ward." --American Ethnologist "These essays should be read by anyone interested in contemporary Africa, Oceania, New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia as well as Southern and South-East Asia." --Mission Outlook