The gender of the gift

By Marilyn Strathern

Subjects: Melanesia, Anthropology, Electronic books, Women, Melanesians, Women, social conditions, Women's Studies, Sex role, Feminism, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Social life and customs, Cultural, Social conditions, Women, developing countries

Description: 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.