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

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.

Cuprins

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