Marilyn Strathern is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Among her many writings are The Gender of the Gift (University of California Press) Kinship at the Core (Cambridge University Press), and Partial Connections (Rowman & Littlefield).

• Part 1 Part I: Producers and TransactorsChapter 2 Hagen SocietyChapter 3 Residence and Work: The Woman with Her Husband's KinChapter 4 The HouseholdChapter 5 The Roads of MarriageChapter 6 Kin at Her BackChapter 7 Producers and TransactorsPart 8 Part II: The Independent WomanChapter 9 Pollution and PoisonChapter 10 Marital StabilityChapter 11 Focus for BlameChapter 12 Settlement of DisputesChapter 13 Judicial StatusChapter 14 Status, Incorporation and CommitmentChapter 15 Appendices

Marilyn Strathern is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Among her many writings are The Gender of the Gift (University of California Press) Kinship at the Core (Cambridge University Press), and Partial Connections (Rowman & Littlefield).

• Part 1 Part I: Producers and TransactorsChapter 2 Hagen SocietyChapter 3 Residence and Work: The Woman with Her Husband's KinChapter 4 The HouseholdChapter 5 The Roads of MarriageChapter 6 Kin at Her BackChapter 7 Producers and TransactorsPart 8 Part II: The Independent WomanChapter 9 Pollution and PoisonChapter 10 Marital StabilityChapter 11 Focus for BlameChapter 12 Settlement of DisputesChapter 13 Judicial StatusChapter 14 Status, Incorporation and CommitmentChapter 15 Appendices

Marilyn Strathern is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, England. She is the 2003 recipient of the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology. Among her many writings are The Gender of the Gift (University of California Press) Kinship at the Core (Cambridge University Press), and Partial Connections (Rowman & Littlefield).

• Part 1 Part I: Producers and TransactorsChapter 2 Hagen SocietyChapter 3 Residence and Work: The Woman with Her Husband's KinChapter 4 The HouseholdChapter 5 The Roads of MarriageChapter 6 Kin at Her BackChapter 7 Producers and TransactorsPart 8 Part II: The Independent WomanChapter 9 Pollution and PoisonChapter 10 Marital StabilityChapter 11 Focus for BlameChapter 12 Settlement of DisputesChapter 13 Judicial StatusChapter 14 Status, Incorporation and CommitmentChapter 15 Appendices