Gender of the Gift Problems With Women and Problems With Society in Melanesia

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 makesThe Gender of the Giftone of the most sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited vindications.Strathern, Marilyn is the author of 'Gender of the Gift Problems With Women and Problems With Society in Melanesia', published 1990 under ISBN 9780520072022 and ISBN 0520072022.