The Gender of the Gift(English, Paperback, Strathern Marilyn)

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The Gender of the Gift(English, Paperback, Strathern Marilyn) is written by Strathern Marilyn and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520072022 (ISBN 10) and 9780520072022 (ISBN 13).

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. This makes "The Gender of the Gift" one of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.