The Gender of the Gift - Problems With Women and Problems With Society in Melanesia

Klappentext 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Strathern, Strathern Marilyn
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1990
• EAN: 9780520072022
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07202-2
• No. of pages: 437
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Studies in Melanesian Anthropology; Studies in Melanesian Anthropology
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Melanesia