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  • Relations

    An Anthropological Account

    The concept of relation holds a privileged place in how anthropologists think and write about the social and cultural lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and its usage and significance in the English-speaking world. Exploring relation's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries, Strathern ... En savoir plus

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  • Before and After Gender

    Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life

    Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This ... En savoir plus

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  • Difficult Attachments

    Anxieties of Kinship and Care

    Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but ‘warm and fuzzy’ but is characterized, ... En savoir plus

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  • Property, Substance, and Effect

    Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

    Collections series Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life.Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern’s longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship. How new relations are brought into ... En savoir plus

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  • Partial Connections

    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... En savoir plus

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  • Gifts and Commodities

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    Collections series HAU - Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    Christopher A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.Gifts and Commodities is, at once, a critique of neoclassical economics and development theory, a critical history of colonial Papua New ... En savoir plus

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  • Audit Cultures

    Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

    Collections series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought? We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountability for our behaviour and actions. Audit cultures pervade in the workplace, our governmental and public institutions as well as academia. However, audit practices themselves have consequences, beneficial and detrimental, that ... En savoir plus

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  • Technologies of Procreation

    Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

    Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective. ... En savoir plus

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  • O efeito etnográfico e outros ensaios

    Collections series Coleção Argonautas
    Nesta coletânea de 15 dos artigos mais influentes da antropóloga britânica Marilyn Strathern, publicados entre 1980 e 2004, a autora de O gênero da dádiva aborda temas diversos como categorias etnográficas de doméstico e selvagem, gênero, parentesco, economias da dádiva versus economia da mercadoria, noção de pessoa, evento histórico, cultura material, técnicas de fertilização, direitos de ... En savoir plus

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  • Shifting Contexts

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    Collections series ASA Decennial Conference Series: The Uses of Knowledge
    To suppose anthropological analysis can shift between global and local perspectives may well imply that the two co-exist as broader and narrower horizons or contexts of knowledge. The proof for this can be found in ethnographic accounts where contrasts are repeatedly drawn between the encompassing realm and everyday life or in value systems which sumultaneously trivialise and aggrandise or in ... En savoir plus

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  • When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty

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