n Chapter 3: Going Native: Mommy Wants a Birkin, I feel as though Martin takes her talents of anthropology to the next level. She goes into extreme detail of her observations and her strategies in a way she has yet to do in any of the previous chapters.It amazes me that
Martin can take any small action of any person and analyze it down to the very last detail. She also asks herself questions while observing in order to deepen her interpretation.
When Martin discusses an altercation in which she was walking down the sidewalk and numerously tried to avoid going shoulder to shoulder with another woman coming her way. As
Martin continued to walk down the street, the woman purposely bumped into her. Martin says, “I had been charged. At least that …show more content…
Martin takes it upon herself to begin to purposely put herself in thee situations and record each detail for her own research. She made an observation that in most of these encounters, she “had to step aside toward the curb or flatten [herself] against the wall of a building to allow a woman to stride by [her], so adamant was she in her refusal to budge or swerve a fraction of an inch from her course that had been altered to tell me . . . something.” (81) As I read this, it only made me wonder all the more as to why women exhibit to be consiously confrontational. Soon, Martin discusses these women’s necessity for a designer bag and the significance of the symbolization behind them. Later on she confides in Jeff Nunokawa, an english literature professor who has a strong knowledge of women and their luxury commodities. He says, “these women are reminding men, society, and themselves that they inhabit a privileged, identificatory relationship to those bags.” I find this to be something I had never noticed in women, yet an element that seems to be extremely accurate. In addition to this, Nunokawa says, “she wants them spectacularly and desperately because she, too, wants---she needs---to be a wanted
Martin can take any small action of any person and analyze it down to the very last detail. She also asks herself questions while observing in order to deepen her interpretation.
When Martin discusses an altercation in which she was walking down the sidewalk and numerously tried to avoid going shoulder to shoulder with another woman coming her way. As
Martin continued to walk down the street, the woman purposely bumped into her. Martin says, “I had been charged. At least that …show more content…
Martin takes it upon herself to begin to purposely put herself in thee situations and record each detail for her own research. She made an observation that in most of these encounters, she “had to step aside toward the curb or flatten [herself] against the wall of a building to allow a woman to stride by [her], so adamant was she in her refusal to budge or swerve a fraction of an inch from her course that had been altered to tell me . . . something.” (81) As I read this, it only made me wonder all the more as to why women exhibit to be consiously confrontational. Soon, Martin discusses these women’s necessity for a designer bag and the significance of the symbolization behind them. Later on she confides in Jeff Nunokawa, an english literature professor who has a strong knowledge of women and their luxury commodities. He says, “these women are reminding men, society, and themselves that they inhabit a privileged, identificatory relationship to those bags.” I find this to be something I had never noticed in women, yet an element that seems to be extremely accurate. In addition to this, Nunokawa says, “she wants them spectacularly and desperately because she, too, wants---she needs---to be a wanted