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The problem of widows
American Ethnologist ( IF 1.906 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 , DOI: 10.1111/amet.12869
JOANNA DAVIDSON 1
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How does an ethnographer inquire about a social category that is neither named nor recognized as such? The Ejamat Jola language has no word for widow, even though more than a third of households in the Jola villages of Guinea‐Bissau are occupied by women whose husbands have died. Over years of fieldwork, I have tried to explain why widows were not named or even seen by Jola villagers. Chronicling how each of my explanations was undercut by both Jola responses and my own critical scrutiny, I recount the impasses of an ethnographic quest and show the gradual process of gaining insight into experiences that cannot be encapsulated by either local or anthropological models. The unspeakable can signal not only profound fragilities in social relations but also openings for new social formations beyond the normative bounds of received cultural categories. [widows, marriage, gender, production, reproduction, silence, ethnography, Jola, Guinea‐Bissau, West Africa]

中文翻译:

寡妇的问题

民族志学家如何查询既没有被命名又未被承认的社会类别?该Ejamat朱拉语有没有字寡妇,尽管几内亚比绍的乔拉村有三分之一以上的家庭被丈夫去世的妇女所占据。经过多年的实地考察,我试图解释为什么寡妇没有被乔拉村民命名,甚至没有被其看到。根据乔拉的回应和我自己的严格审查,我逐渐解释了我的每一个解释,回顾了民族志研究的僵局,并展示了逐步获得对本地或人类学模式无法囊括的经验的见识的过程。无法言说的信号不仅可以预示着社会关系中的严重脆弱性,而且还标志着新的社会形态的开放,超越了所接受的文化类别的规范范围。[寡妇婚姻性别生产生殖沉默人种志乔拉几内亚比绍西非]
更新日期:2020-06-02
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