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 people and analyzes the power of women in their male-dominated system. Strathern cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce, and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society.

Women in between;: Female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea (Seminar studies in anthropology, 2)

Politics & Social Sciences

STRATHERN, MARILYN

Women's Studies

Seminar Press

Technologies of Procreation

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

Franklin, Sarah

Edwards, Jeanette

Price, Frances

Hirsch, Eric

Reference

Routledge

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 often go unexamined.This book examines how pervasive practices of accountability are, the political and cultural conditions under which accountability flourishes and the consequences of their application. Twelve social anthropologists look at this influential and controversial phenomenon, and map out the effects around Europe and the Commonwealth, as well as in contexts such as the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and Academic institutions. The result provides an excellent insight into auditing and its dependence on precepts of economic efficiency and ethical practice. This point of convergence between these moral and financial priorities provides an excellent opening for debate on the culture of management and accountability.

Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

Social Sciences

With contributions from leading academics from a range of study areas such as anthropology, politics and management studies, this volume is opening up a new area of research to anthropologists and corporations alike.

This volume marks an epoch of sorts. The essays belong to, and the majority were written during, the time when the Bill for the Human Fertilization and Embryology Act (1990) going through Parliament had stimulated public debate in Britain. The implications of the medical developments that lay behind the Act are world-wide. These essays touch on the British debate from the particular perspective of an anthropologist.New procreative possibilities - fertilization in vitro, gamete donation, maternal surrogacy - formulate new possibilities for thinking about kinship. At the same time, and inevitably, possibilities are imagined through ideas already in existence and already part of a cultural repertoire. As cultural facts, such ideas inform our representations, descriptions and analyses of kinship, and the future of kinship lies in their future too. The same issues also open up larger questions about how to think the interaction between 'nature' and 'culture' as such. Anthropologists have their own investment in the concept of culture, and questions are in turn raised about how anthropology will reproduce its concepts in the future.My hope is that together the essays will demonstrate one kind of contribution that anthropological knowledge can make to current debate. It is knowledge that openly draws on substantive materials from other parts of the world, and hence from other people's cultural facts, even when it is most about home. Thus the present essays are informed by recent rethinking of models of kinship in Melanesia. This serves as a reminder of what is at stake in fashioning new descriptions of kin relations. Anthropological knowledge offers a transparent example of the process involved in rethinking through concepts and images whose expressible forms already belong to other repertoires and thus to other specific domains of ideas. In that it borrows as much from itself and its own past as it does from elsewhere. And in that sense the world is kin.

Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies

Anthropology

Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

This study draws on the author's long standing interest in the reification of social relations. Its rationale lies in the question about property, ownership and knowledge which these essays bring together. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for ownership. The essays touch both on the claims people make through relations with other imagined as relations of body substances, and on the increasing visibility of conceptual or intellectual work as property. Whether one lives in Papua New Guinea or Britain, cultural categories are being dissolved and reformed at a tempo that calls for reflection - and for the kind of lateral reflection afforded by ethnographic insight.

The Athlone Press

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.

The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)

History

Asia

University of California Press

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.

The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology) (Volume 6)

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, Marilyn Strathern provides an understanding of the characteristics of those who most vehemently claim to be 'real' village people. Yet this account goes far beyond ethnographic description. Its inspiration lies with Dr Audrey Richards, a distinguished anthropologist whose most substantial contribution has been in Africa, while Dr Strathern herself has had many years' field experience in Papua New Guinea. As 'outsiders' they bring a fresh approach to English village studies. The book takes the idea of 'village' not for granted, but as a dogma to be accounted for. Dr Strathern argues that in order to appreciate why the village should be so salient a reference point in people's self-classifications, it is necessary to understand what the village stands for in their ideas of the world.

Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-west Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties

Europe

Cambridge University Press

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Women in between;: Female roles in a male world: Mount Hagen, New Guinea (Seminar studies in anthropology, 2)

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

Reproducing the Future: Anthropology, Kinship, and the New Reproductive Technologies

Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)

The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology) (Volume 6)

Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-west Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties

Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-west Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties