Marilyn Strathern 
The Gender of the Gift [PDF ebook] 
Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia

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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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Table of Content

Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1. Anthropological Strategies
2. A Place in the Feminist Debate
PART ONE
3. Groups: Sexual Antagonism in the
New Guinea Highlands
4. Domains: Male and Female Models
5. Power: Claims and Counterclaims
6. Work: Exploitation at Issue
PART TWO
7. Some Definitions
8. Relations which Separate
9. Forms which Propagate
10. Cause and Effect
CONCLUSION
11. Domination
12. Comparison
Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 437 ● ISBN 9780520910713 ● File size 24.3 MB ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 1988 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4995026 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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