Post #10: Feminist anthropology as cultural critique

Out of the choices we had for this blog I chose to read about Womens Labour Activism. I read an article called: Hungering for Power: Borders and Contradiction in Indian Tea Plantations Womens Organizing as well as Womens Labour Activism in China. I found that both these articles contained defamiliarization. the first one I mentioned, i think, could be classified as defamiliarization by epistemological critique because the write goes "out to the periphery of the Euro-centric". The other article is, I demfamiliarization by cross-cultural juxtaposition because it matches "ethnography abroad with ethnography at home." THe writer compares womans labour activism in china to those of other female labour activism in other countries a few times. Both articles basically talk about the authority that men have and how women cannot move up the career chain. The writers both want the women of China and India (depending on the article) to gain female rights, and to stop the obvious gender inequalities. IT is clear that matriarchy is not found, but instead is dominated by patriarchal politics. ARTICLES: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.proxy1.lib.umanitoba.ca/doi/full/10.1086/523820?prevSearch=%2528tea%2Bplantations%2529%2BAND%2B%255Bjournal%253A%2Bsigns%255D&searchHistoryKey= http://www.journals.uchicago.edu.proxy1.lib.umanitoba.ca/doi/full/10.1086/523821 PICTURE:http://deepaknegi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Feminism1.jpg