· 2019
The Gender of the Gift
- 1,336citations
- 2019year
Short summary
This book argues that Western anthropological and feminist assumptions have distorted the understanding of gender relations in Melanesian scholarship.
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Key points
- Challenges unexamined Western assumptions in anthropology and feminist scholarship.
- Focuses on the representation of gender relations in Melanesian societies.
- Synthesizes insights from Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnography.
- Critiques the practice and limitations of cross-cultural comparison in anthropology.
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Abstract
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.
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