The Gender of the Gift

Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia

By:

Marilyn Strathern

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Studies in Melanesian Anthropology

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In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness-and with equal good humor-the insights of Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.

Release date Australia

November 1st, 1990

Author

Marilyn Strathern

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

437

Series

Studies in Melanesian Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780520072022

Product ID

2111001

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