The gender of the gift: problems with women and problems with society in Melanesia
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Main Author: Strathern, Marilyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©1988
Series:Studies in Melanesian anthropology 6
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-405) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 422 pages)
ISBN:0520072022
0520910710
0585108293
1282356003
9780520910713
9780585108292
9781282356009

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