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

by Marilyn Strathern

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520072022

ISBN13:9780520072022

Release Date:November 1990

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:437 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Asia Cultural Europe Gay & Lesbian Gender Studies History India Politics & Social Sciences Social Science

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