Australian Ways

Anthropological studies in an industrialised society

Lenore Manderson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780367717476
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000256284
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Estudios étnicos

This collection, the first of its kind in Australia, illustrates the richness of data and analysis born of the anthropological study of contemporary white Australian society.

The studies presented here deal with diverse settings and events, ranging from a community's responses to a bushfire in rural NSW to the messages encoded in a male strip show in Adelaide. Work and leisure, family life and institutional relationships, natural disaster and culturally manipulated violence, the particular experiences of the homeless, the elderly, immigrants - all form a part of this collection.

Specifically and recurrently, the power of gender and class within Australian life is underlined.

This book was inspired by the need to demonstrate the especial skills and insights of anthropology when brought to bear on familiar 'everyday' data. It will be of interest to anyone curious about the colour and diversity of Australian life.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction Towards an anthropology of industrialised society
• 1 The private life of the extended family: family, kinship and class in a middle class suburb of Sydney
• 2 A community in crisis: bushfire in a district of the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales
• 3 The phallus and the man: an analysis of male striptease
• 4 Across the bar: women’s work in hotels
• 5 A case of status degradation: or how insult is added to injury
• 6 Party selling: a new form of traditional hospitality amongst Turkish women migrants in Melbourne
• 7 The best scones in town: old women in an Australian country town
• 8 The good go to heaven and the bad go to hell: doing patienthood on the orthopaedic ward
• Bibliography
• Index