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The Gender of the Gift

By Marilyn Strathern

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1988
ISBN
0520072022, 9780520072022, 9780585108292
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
94 MB (98589565 bytes)
Series
Studies in Melanesian Anthropology 6
Pages
440\440
Time added
2018-03-15 22:20:56

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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