Publication

1990-11-01 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

109,250 words, Guess

Page Count

437 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCGN668.S69 1990
  • LCCGN668 .S69 1988eb

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.

First Sentence

The Papua New Guinea Highlands were opened up to investigation at a particular moment in the expansion of post-war anthropology.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, Vol. 6)PaperbackUniversity of California Press1990-11-01

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