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The Gender of the Gift|Marilyn Strathern

The Gender of the Gift : Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia Volume 6

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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. 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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  • ISBN-13: 9780520072022
  • ISBN-10: 0520072022
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publish Date: November 1990
  • Dimensions: 8.93 x 5.92 x 1.09 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Page Count: 437

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