Description
Product ID: | 9780520072022 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Studies in Melanesian Anthropology |
Title: | The Gender of the Gift |
Subtitle: | Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia |
Authors: | Author: Marilyn Strathern |
Page Count: | 437 |
Subjects: | Feminism and feminist theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Anthropology, Anthropology, Melanesia |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1990-11-01 |