The Gender of the Gift by Marilyn Strathern

The Gender of the Gift by Marilyn Strathern

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Zusammenfassung

Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. This book treats 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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The Gender of the Gift by Marilyn Strathern

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
Titel The Gender of the Gift
Autor Marilyn Strathern
Serie Studies In Melanesian Anthropology
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1990-11-01
Seitenanzahl 437
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