Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought? We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountabilit...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Marilyn Strathern.
In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamin...
Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultura...
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Marilyn Strathern · ISBN 9780521849920
Julkaistu 2005 Kieli englanti sidottu
How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart o...
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 Str...
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 Str...
This book challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally...
In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Between. Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuse...
In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Between. Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuse...
Commons and Borderlands
Marilyn Strathern · ISBN 9780954557225
Julkaistu 2003 Kieli englanti pokkari
In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-first- century interests in interdisciplinarity, with particular attention to the conjunction of...
Property, Substance, and Effect
Marilyn Strathern · ISBN 9780999157077
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti nidottu
In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life. Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern’s longsta...
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 Mari...
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 Mari...
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 anth...
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 anth...
Kinship at the Core
Marilyn Strathern; Audrey Richards · ISBN 9780521105033
Julkaistu 2009 Kieli englanti pokkari
In the village of Elmdon in north-west Essex, members of certain families are distinguished from other residents as being `real Elmdon'. Through a detailed ethnography of the st...
Before and After Gender – Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
Marilyn Strathern; Sarah Franklin; Judith Butler · ISBN 9780986132537
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti nidottu
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 analysi...
When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty
Hildegard Diemberger; Marilyn Strathern · ISBN 9780231143202
Julkaistu 2007 Kieli englanti sidottu
In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajrav...
When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty
Hildegard Diemberger; Marilyn Strathern · ISBN 9780231143219
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti pokkari
In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajrav...
Big Men and Great Men
Maurice Godelier; Marilyn Strathern · ISBN 9780521390187
Julkaistu 1991 Kieli englanti sidottu
The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collection of essays, anthropologists who have worked in all parts of the Melanesian...