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The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia

By Marilyn Strathern

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1988
ISBN
0520072022, 9780520072022, 9780585108292
Google Books ID
aJxD8nc3INUC
Open Library ID
OL7709543M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1546068 bytes)
Series
Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 6
Pages
272\272
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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