The gender of the gift : problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia / Marilyn Strathern.

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Strathern, Marilyn

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in Melanesian anthropology ; 6.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1988.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 422 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520910713
0520910710
0585108293
9780585108292

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The gender of the giftDDC classification:

305.4/0993 19

LOC classification:

GN668

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Contents:

Anthropological Strategies -- A Place in the Feminist Debate -- Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the New Guinea Highlands -- Domains: Male and Female Models -- Power: Claims and Counterclaims -- Work: Exploitation at Issue -- Some Definitions -- Relations which Separate -- Forms which Propagate -- Cause and Effect -- Conclusion -- Domination -- Comparison.

Summary: 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.

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Bibliography: p. 387-405.

Includes index.

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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.

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