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Shifting Contexts
Inbunden, 1995
2510 kr
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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 …
Shifting Contexts
Häftad, 1995
764 kr
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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 …
Technologies of Procreation
Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Av Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
3155 kr
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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.
Technologies of Procreation
Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Av Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
831 kr
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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.
Audit Cultures
Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
Häftad, 2000
822 kr
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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 …
Gender of the Gift
Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
Häftad, 1990
323 kr
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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 …
Gender of the Gift
Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
E-bok, 1988
537 kr
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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 …
Big Men and Great Men
Personifications of Power in Melanesia
Av Maurice Godelier, Marilyn Strathern
Häftad, 2008
716 kr
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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 region of the Pacific bring their expertise to bear on a single theoretical issue. This is a hypothesis formulated by …
Kinship at the Core
An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-west Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties
Häftad, 2009
716 kr
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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 structure of the village, and the interrelationships between its various families, work patterns and community activities, …
Nature, Culture and Gender
Av Carol MacCormack, Marilyn Strathern
Häftad, 1980
781 kr
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Categories of analysis in the social sciences include the binary pair 'nature' and 'culture', as defined by western societies. Anthropologists have often imputed these categories to the world-views of non-western people and the construct has acquired the status of a universal. It has been further …
Dealing with Inequality
Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond
Häftad, 1987
569 kr
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The question of 'equality' between the sexes has long been of long-standing interest among anthropologists. Originally published in 1987, this volume sets out not to dispose of the question, but rather to examine how to debate it. It recognises that inequality as a theoretical and practical concern …
After Nature
English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1992
471 kr
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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 cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester in 1989, After Nature challenges the …
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Relatives are Always a Surprise
Häftad, 2005
422 kr
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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 of studies of society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships. Relationality is a phenomenon at once …
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Relatives are Always a Surprise
Inbunden, 2005
1019 kr
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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 of studies of society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships. Relationality is a phenomenon at once …
Partial Connections
Inbunden, 2005
1420 kr
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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 …
Partial Connections
Häftad, 2005
558 kr
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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 …
Partial Connections
E-bok, 2005
608 kr
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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 …
Women in Between
Female Roles in a Male World: Mount Hagen, New Guinea
Häftad, 1995
1066 kr
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In 1971 Marilyn Strathern provided what has now become a classic ethnographic text, Women In Between. Significantly, this pioneering contribution to feminist anthropology focuses on gender relations rather than on women alone. Re-issued now, Women in Between examines the attitudes of the Hagen …
Commons and Borderlands
Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge
Häftad, 2003
341 kr
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In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-first- century interests in interdisciplinarity, with particular attention to the conjunction of science and society. Interdisciplinary practice has become well entrenched in any number of scientific disciplines, or …
Before and After Gender – Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
Av Marilyn Strathern, Sarah Franklin m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
306 kr
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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 …
Gifts and Commodities
Av C. A. Gregory, Marilyn Strathern
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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C 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 …
Property, Substance, and Effect
Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things
Häftad, 2023
362 kr
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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, …
Audit Cultures
Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
E-bok, 2003
949 kr
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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 …
Audit Cultures
Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
E-bok, 2003
970 kr
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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 …
Technologies of Procreation
Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Av Marilyn Strathern, Frances Price m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
953 kr
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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.
Technologies of Procreation
Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Av Marilyn Strathern, Frances Price m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
876 kr
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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.
Shifting Contexts
E-bok, 2012
901 kr
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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 …
Shifting Contexts
E-bok, 2012
901 kr
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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 …
Relations
An Anthropological Account
Inbunden, 2020
1266 kr
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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 …
Relations
An Anthropological Account
Häftad, 2020
298 kr
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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 …
