Gender of the Gift (Paper) : Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
ISBN-10
0520072022
ISBN-13
9780520072022
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 1990
Print length
437 Pages
Weight
676 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.40 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
MelanesiaFeminism and feminist theoryFeminism & feminist theoryAnthropology
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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.
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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