The gender of the gift

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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.
Social life and customsSOCIAL SCIENCEElectronic booksMelanesiansSex roleSocial conditionsWomen's StudiesFeminismWomenWomen, social conditionsMelanesiaWomen, developing countries