The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia: 6 (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)

by Marilyn Strathern (Author), Marilyn Strathern (Author)

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  1990

  $33.23

  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.