The Subject of Anthropology: Gender, Symbolism and PsychoanalysisISBN: 978-0-7456-0808-2
Hardcover
288 pages
March 2007, Polity
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Using detailed ethnographic material from Africa and Melanesia
to explore the strengths and weaknesses of a range of theories in
anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis, Moore advocates an
ethics of engagement based on a detailed understanding of the
differences and similarities in the ways in which local communities
and western scholars have imaginatively deployed the power of
sexual difference. She demonstrates the importance of ethnographic
listening, of focused attention to people’s imaginations, and
of how this illuminates different facets of complex theoretical
issues and human conundrums.
Written not just for professional scholars and for students but for anyone with a serious interest in how gender and sexuality are conceptualized and experienced, this book is the most powerful and persuasive assessment to date of what anthropology has to contribute to these debates now and in the future.