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International Gender Studies Lecture: Anthropology and autobiography: ethnography and the social reproduction of Roma identities
This paper revisits the intersections of anthropology and autobiography to argue for the significance of boundaries, reflexivity, and heterogeneity as analytic prisms in ethnography. Judith Okely’s work showed how gendered practices materialise social distinctions and how anthropological knowledge is inseparable from autobiography, which she argued for as a methodological resource. This presentation extends these insights through ethnographic research with Roma communities, where everyday engagements with kinship, healthcare, and education emerge as sites of creativity and agency in which people reshape obligations, reconfigure identities, and imagine alternative possibilities for social reproduction.
Date:
5 December 2025, 15:00
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Ilana Sarafian (LSE)
Organising department:
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Organisers:
Alice Millington (University of Oxford),
Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East),
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford)
Part of:
School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Departmental Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Kate Atherton
