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This collection illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society. Inspired by the need to demonstrate the especial skills and insights of anthropology when brought to bear on familiar 'everyday' data, Australian Ways will be of interest to anyone curious about the colour
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributorsIntroduction: Towards an anthropology of industrialised society -
Lenore Manderson1 The private life of the extended family: family, kinship and class in a middle class suburb of Sydney -
Maila Stivens2 A community in crisis: bushfire in a district of the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales -
Gretchen Poiner3 The phallus and the man: an analysis of male striptease -
Susan Baggett Barham4 Across the bar: women's work in hotels -
Sandra Grimes5 A case of status degradation: or how insult is added to injury -
Judyth Watson6 Party selling: a new form of traditional hospitality amongst Turkish women migrants in Melbourne -
Joy Elley7 The best scones in town: old women in an Australian country town -
Wendy Walker-Birckhead8 The good go to heaven and the bad go to hell: doing patienthood on the orthopaedic ward -
David C. HyndamanBibliography
Index
About the author
Dr Lenore Manderson teaches anthropology and sociology at the University of NSW. She is the author of a number of works including
Overpopulation in Java: Problems and Reactions and
Women, Politics and Change, and is the editor of
Women's Work and Women's Roles.
Summary
This collection illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society. Inspired by the need to demonstrate the especial skills and insights of anthropology when brought to bear on familiar 'everyday' data, Australian Ways will be of interest to anyone curious about the colour
