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The Gender of the Gift
Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
- 439 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Publisher
University of California PressYear
1988Print ISBN
9780520064232
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520910713
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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